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MOTHER'S BONNET by NATHALIA CRANE

First Line: THIS IS HER BONNET, WITH RIBBONS ARRAYED
Last Line: BUT IT MUST HAVE HAD WONDERFUL POWER TO DRAW.
Subject(s): HATS; MOTHERS;
THIS is her bonnet, with ribbons arrayed,
Clearly a calico ambuscade;
It dates from the days of the bricks of straw—
This is the bonnet my mother wore.

This is the bonnet my mother donned
When she walked with a youth by Plymouth Pond;
'Twas the night she wore her beads of jade,
And father fell into the ambuscade.

This is the bonnet I found in a chest,
Daisies and bows in a lavender nest;
It looks like the plumes the Persians wore,
But it must have had wonderful power to draw.



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