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CONSUMMATION, by                    
First Line: Abundant life is nature's law
Last Line: To take you through the gates of heaven.
Subject(s): Caregivers; Mothers; Parents; Teaching & Teachers; Parenthood; Educators; Professors


Abundant life is nature's law,
And every known device is lent
To gain, preserve and shroud in awe
A wondrous, living element
Which causes all to breathe and glow,
From simplest forms through brain and brawn,
As upward in life's scale we go,
Progressing slowly with the dawn.

Behold the mother with her child,
A newborn dazzled in the light,
So tender, helpless, sweet and mild,
So strong and great in love's own might;
And here, concentered into man,
We find expression of the powers
Which kept the spark whence it began
And brought it safely through the hours.

Here have they fused into this one
A consciousness in highest form,
With metamorphosis anon
And mind resplendent as the norm;
The power to balance and maintain
Is a divine intelligence,
To rule and govern every plane
As wise and just omnipotence.

Who will safeguard an infant soul
For consummation of the mind,
Expressing God—all nature's goal—
Regenerating self in kind,
Though you may not the parent be
Unto whose life the child is given,
You'll find within its hands a key
To take you through the gates of heaven.





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