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Lo! where yon cottage whitens through the green, The loveliest feature of a matchless scene; Beneath its shading elm, with pious fear, An aged mother draws her children near; While from the Holy Word, with earnest air, She teaches them the privilege of prayer. Look! How their infant eyes with rapture speak; Mark the flushed lily on the dimpled cheek; Their hearts are filled with gratitude and love, Their hopes are centred in a world above, Where, in a choir of angels, Faith portrays The loved, departed, father of their days.
Lo! where yon cottage whitens through the green, The loveliest feature of a matchless scene; Beneath its shading elm, with pious fear, An aged mother draws her children near; While from the Holy Word, with earnest air, She teaches them the privilege of prayer. Look! How their infant eyes with rapture speak; Mark the flushed lily on the dimpled cheek; Their hearts are filled with gratitude and love, Their hopes are centred in a world above, Where, in a choir of angels, Faith portrays The loved, departed, father of their days.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- Rufus Dawes (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 404 · printed citation: Rufus Dawes · subject: MOTHER
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