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  2. Edith Matilda Thomas
Mother England

I
there was a rover from a western shore,
England! whose eyes the sudden tears did drown,
Beholding the white cliff and sunny down
Of thy good realm, beyond the sea’s uproar.
I, for a moment, dreamed that, long before,
I had beheld them thus, when,...

Poet: Edith Matilda Thomas
The Mother Who Died Too

She was so little—little in her grave,
  The wide earth all around so hard and cold—
She was so little! therefore did I crave
  My arms might still her tender form enfold.
She was so little, and her cry so weak
  When she among the heavenly children came—...

Poet: Edith Matilda Thomas