Nobody Knows But Mother.
How many buttons are missing to-day?
Nobody knows but Mother. How many playthings strewn in her way?
Nobody knows but Mother. How many thimbles and spools has she
missed? How many burns on each fat little fist? How many bumps to be cuddled and kissed? Nobody knows but Mother. How many muddy shoes all in a row? Nobody knows but Mother. How many stockings to dam, .do you know ? Nobody knows but Mother. How many little torn aprons to mend? How many hours of toil must she spevid? What is the time -when her day's Avork shall end?
Nobody knows but Mother. How many cares does a mother heart know? Nobody knows but Mother. How many joys from her mother-love flow? ' Nobody knows but Mother. How mnny prayers by each little white bed? How many tears for her babes has she shed? How many kisses for each curly head? Nobody knows but Mother.
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Otago Witness, Volume 30, Issue 2353, 30 March 1899, Page 52
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157Nobody Knows But Mother. Otago Witness, Volume 30, Issue 2353, 30 March 1899, Page 52
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