If Nature smiles — the Mother must

I'm sure, at many a whim

Of Her eccentric Family —

Is She so much to blame?

Poet:

Nature — the Gentlest Mother is,

Impatient of no Child —

The feeblest — or the waywardest —

Her Admonition mild —


In Forest — and the Hill —

By Traveller — be heard —

Restraining Rampant Squirrel —...

Poet: