MOTHERHOOD.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11869, 22 January 1902, Page 3

MOTHERHOOD.

THE night throbs on: but let me pray, dear. Crush off his nemo a moment o m mv mouth. To Thee my eyes would turn, but. tney h Back' So my arm beside me where he laySo little, Lord, so little and so warm. I cannot think that thou had st need of him! He is so little, I>ord, ho cannot sing, lie cannot praise Thee; all his ups had learned fast my hisses in the night. Was to hold fast my kisses m the rught. Give him to meho is not happy there! lie had not felt his life: his lovely eyes Just know me for his mother, and ho c.iei. Hast Thou an angel there to mother him? i «ay he loves me bestif he -forgets. If Tho a allow it that my child forgets And runs not out to meet me when I come— What are my curses to Thoo? Thou hast ■ni bourse of Abel's mother, and since then Wo have not ceased to threaten at Thy thron , To threat and pray Theo that Thou hold them still In memory of us. . See Thou tend him well. Thou God of all tho mothers! If be lack One of his lasses— my heart, my heart, Do angels kiss in heaven? Give him back. Forgive me, Lord, but I am sick with grief. And tired of tears and cold to comforting. Thou art wise, I know, ami tender, aye, and | Thou°hast my child and he is safe in Thee, i And I beliove— - , All, God, my child shall go Orphaned among the angels! AJI alone. So little and alone! He knows took' He only knows his mother—give him DacK. JOSEPHINE DODGE DASKAM. in Scribner s Magazine.; : -