If Nature smiles — the Mother must
I'm sure, at many a whim
Of Her eccentric Family —
Is She so much to blame?
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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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