Nature – the Gentlest Mother is,
Impatient of no Child –
The ⁺feeblest – or the Wayward–
est –
Her Admonition mild –
In Forest – and the Hill –
By Traveller – be heard –
Restraining Rampant Squirrel –
Or too impetuous Bird –
 

How fair Her Conversation –
A Summer Afternoon –
Her Household – Her Assembly –
And when the Sun go down –

 

Her Voice among the Aisles
Incite the timid prayer
Of the minutest Cricket –
The most unworthy Flower –

 

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When all the Children sleep –
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light
Her lamps –
Then ⁺bending from the Sky –

 

With infinite Affection –
And infiniter Care –
Her Golden finger on Her lip –
With Silence – Everywhere –

 

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