1. <br /> <br />What is home without a mother, <br />What are all the joys we meet? <br />When her loving smile no longer <br />Greets the coming of our feet; <br />The days seem long, the nights are drear, <br />And time rolls slowly on, <br />And oh how few are childhoods pleasures, <br />When her gentle gentle care is gone. <br /> <br />2. <br /> <br />Things we prize are first to vanish; <br />Hearts we love to pass away. <br />And how soon, e'en in our childhood, <br />We behold her turning gray; <br />Her eye grows dim, her step is slow, <br />Her joys of earth are past; <br />And sometimes 'ere we learn to know her, <br />She hath breath'd on earth her last. <br /> <br />3. <br /> <br />Older hearts may have their sorrows, <br />Griefs that quickly die away; <br />But a mother lost in childhood, <br />Grieves the heart from day to day. <br />We miss her kind, her willing hand; <br />Her fond and earnest care; <br />And oh! how dark is life around us, <br />What is home without her there.<br /><br />Septimus Winner<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-is-home-without-a-mother/
