The good old-fashioned mothers and the good old-fashioned dads, <br />With their good old-fashioned lassies and their good old-fashioned lads, <br />Still walk the lanes of loving in their simple, tender ways, <br />As they used to do back yonder in the good old-fashioned days. <br /> <br />They dwell in every city and they live in every town, <br />Contentedly and happy and not hungry for renown; <br />On every street you'll find 'em in their simple garments clad, <br />The good old-fashioned mother and the good old-fashioned dad. <br /> <br />There are some who sigh for riches, there are some who yearn for fame, <br />And a few misguided people who no longer blush at shame; <br />But the world is full of mothers, and the world is full of dads; <br />Who are making sacrifices for their little girls and lads. <br /> <br />They are growing old together, arm in arm they walk along, <br />And their hearts with love are beating and their voices sweet with song; <br />They still share their disappointments and they share their pleasures, <br /> too, <br />And whatever be their fortune, to each other they are true. <br /> <br />They are watching at the bedside of a baby pale and white, <br />And they kneel and pray together for the care of God at night; <br />They are romping with their children in the fields of clover sweet, <br />And devotedly they guard them from the perils of the street. <br /> <br />They are here in countless numbers, just as they have always been, <br />And their glory is untainted by the selfish and the mean. <br />And I'd hate to still be living, it would dismal be and sad, <br />If we'd no old-fashioned mother and we'd no old-fashioned dad. <br />- See more at: http://allpoetry.com/The-Old-Fashioned-Parents#sthash.ANj00ZCY.dpuf<br /><br />Edgar Albert Guest<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-fashioned-parents/
