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AD ASTRA: 20 by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE

First Line: AND SO OUR LOVE FOR NATURE IS NOT VAIN
Last Line: —TO FIND HER CHASTENINGS ARE WITH LOVE O'ERSTREWN.
Subject(s): LOVE; MOTHERS;

And so our love for Nature is not vain,
But doth return to enrich our hearts the more:
Whate'er we give, she gives us back again
With swift unfoldings from her golden store—
With larger knowledge of ourselves we pore
Upon the book her Mother-heart makes known
—To find her chastenings are with love o'erstrewn.



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