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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A MAN'S DEBT, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poet's Biography
First Line: I toast the mother with the hallowed features
Last Line: A sweet wife's love or saintly mother's prayer.
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: I toast the mother with the hallowed features
Last Line: A sweet wife's love or saintly mother's prayer.
Subject(s): Mothers
I TOAST the mother with the hallowed features,
Most blessed one of all created creatures!
What man achieves he owes to woman's care--
A sweet wife's love or saintly mother's prayer.
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