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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DREAMS, by EDWIN L. SABIN Poet's Biography
First Line: A mother sat in the twilight dim
Last Line: "but, darling mother, I'll marry you!"
Subject(s): Mothers
First Line: A mother sat in the twilight dim
Last Line: "but, darling mother, I'll marry you!"
Subject(s): Mothers
A MOTHER sat in the twilight dim,
Holding her boy while she talked to him.
"Now, tell me, what are you going to be
When grown to a man, dear heart," said she.
"A soldier!" eager replied the child.
But the mother tenderly, sadly smiled.
"And fight--and be killed, perhaps? No, no!
My laddy! I could not let you go!"
"A sailor, speeding the ocean o'er!"
But the mother cuddled him close once more.
"And maybe never come back? Fie, fie!"
She whispered in tones part laugh, part sigh.
A puzzled look on the boy's fair face
Showed of his wavering thoughts a trace.
At length, in a voice all satisfied:
"Why--then I'll marry!" he stoutly cried.
The mother jealously smoothed his head.
"And what will become of me?" she said.
The lips of the boy sought hers anew--
"But, darling mother, I'll marry you!"
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