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But when I go To my lone bed, I find no mother there; And weeping kneel, to say the prayer she taught; Or when I read the Bible that she loved, Or to her vacant seat at church draw near, And think of her, a voice is in my heart, Bidding me early seek my God, and love My Blessed Saviour; and that voice is her’s, I know it is, because these were the words She used to speak so tenderly, with tears, At the still twilight hour,—or when we walked Forth in the Spring, among rejoicing birds, Or peaceful talked beside the Winter hearth.
But when I go To my lone bed, I find no mother there; And weeping kneel, to say the prayer she taught; Or when I read the Bible that she loved, Or to her vacant seat at church draw near, And think of her, a voice is in my heart, Bidding me early seek my God, and love My Blessed Saviour; and that voice is her’s, I know it is, because these were the words She used to speak so tenderly, with tears, At the still twilight hour,—or when we walked Forth in the Spring, among rejoicing birds, Or peaceful talked beside the Winter hearth.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Mrs. Sigourney (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 402 · printed citation: Mrs. Sigourney · subject: MOTHER
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