Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TWO MOTHERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON


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TWO MOTHERS, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A woman walking the street adown
Last Line: "he bides in my heart a child for aye."
Subject(s): Mothers


A WOMAN walking the street adown
Saw at a casement, glint the gown
Of a mother, meek, whose little son
Had died with his child-joys just begun,
And it smote her heart, for well she knew
What Mother-love with a life may do;
And she said, "Poor soul! how sad that she
Should lose the child in his grace and glee!"
For she thought of her boy that lived to-day,
Though man-grown now and far away.

But the woman there in the window-seat
Looked with a smile, not sad, but sweet,
And touched with pity, to the place
Where she had marked the other's face;
And she said, "Poor soul! her child is lost,
For now he is only a man sin-tossed!
But the boy I watched in his bright young day,
He bides in my heart a child for aye."





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