DEAR mother, take me to thy breast!
I have no other place of rest
In all this weary world of men:
Ah! fold me in thy love again,
Sweet mother; clasp me to thy breast!
From out thy womb, long since, I came,
A creature wrought of dust and flame;
I knew no mortal mother’s grace,
But only viewed thy mystic face,
That softly went, and softly came!
I knew thee in the sunset grand,
The waveless calm, the silvery strand;
From out the shimmering twilight-bars
I saw thee smile between the stars,
Divinely sweet, or softly grand
I heard, beneath the sylvan arch,
Thy battling winds, led on by March,
Sweep where the solemn pine-tops close
About its ravaged, dim repose–
Hushed, awed, beneath the woodland arch!
I heard thee, ‘mid some tender hour,
In lisping leaf and rustling flower,
In low lute-breathings of the breeze,
And tidal sighs o’er moonless seas
Star-charmed in midnight’s mournful hour!
I thrilled at each far-whispered tone
That touched me from thy vast unknown,
At every dew-bright hint that fell
From out thy soul unsearchable,
Yea, each strange hint and shadowy tone!
I felt, through dim, awe-laden space,
The coming of thy veil
(Paul Hamilton Hayne)
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