WHEN MOTHER'S WATCH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XII, Issue 14, 25 July 1884, Page 22

WHEN MOTHER'S WATCH.

BY MATTBICE P. E&AN. When mothers watch besides their children's cradles, And kiss the snowy brows and golden hair, They do not see the future that is coming, Though life is made of grief, and pain, and care. Bat God is good to all the tender mqthers, He veils the future with its pain and sin, Though sometimes fears may dim the present gladness, Yet never can they quench the hope within. > Yes, God is very good to tender mothers, They see no thorn upon the gblden head Of him who plays among life's earliest roses, That bloom, a fleeting hour, and then are dead. Yet she, the model of all earthly mothers, Was nevex spared the pain of knowing this : .That, though. the Christ-child played with blooming roses, The cross must come, for all her prayerful bliss. vTo 100k — He slept — upon His snowy eyelids, And know that they should close npon the Tree ; To gaze npon His smooth and stainless forehead And know that there great drops of blood should be. To catch His dimpled hands and softly warm them As mothers do, between her own, was pain ; She felt the nail prints on their tender surface, She could not save her Lamb from being slain. When mothers watch beside their children's cradles And dream bright dreams for them of joy and fame, Let them remember Mary's trust through anguish, And ask all blessings through the Holy Name. — Monitor.