• If Nature smiles — the Mother must

    I'm sure, at many a whim

    Of Her eccentric Family —

    Is She so much to blame?

  • 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 —

    Or too impetuous Bird —


    How fair Her Conversation —

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