A MOTHER'S FAREWELL TO A VOYAGER.
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Such secrets of dominion set
Unstinted for my choice,
Such mysteries, unuttered yet,
Waiting a voice.
Unstinted for my choice,
Such mysteries, unuttered yet,
Waiting a voice.
O hospitable wilderness,
For thee I long and pine;
All human welcome seemeth less
To me than thine.
For thee I long and pine;
All human welcome seemeth less
To me than thine.
A MOTHER'S FAREWELL TO A VOYAGER.
"——— sends love and good-by. She thinks she sees the four quarters of the globe when she looks into the faces of her four children. November 2, 1868."
AIL east, sail west, O wanderer,In east, in west, you cannot see
Such suns as rise and set in these
Four little faces round my knee.
Blue as the north my first-born's eyes;
Her yellow hair hides brow of snow;
Like conquerors from the North she brought
The sweet subjection mothers know.
Her yellow hair hides brow of snow;
Like conquerors from the North she brought
The sweet subjection mothers know.
Glad and sad, and changed in an hour,
My next girl's face is tropic sea,
Where laden winds, whose secret none
Can tell, sweep on unceasingly.
My next girl's face is tropic sea,
Where laden winds, whose secret none
Can tell, sweep on unceasingly.
