'MOTHER! Mother!' he called as he fell <br />In the horror there <br />Of a bursting shell <br />That strewed red flesh on the air. <br />Far away over sea and land: <br />The knitting dropt <br />From an old white hand, <br />And a heart for an instant stopt. <br />But it was Death, dark mother and wise, <br />All-tenderest, <br />Who kissed his eyes <br />And gathered him to her breast.<br /><br />Katharine Lee Bates<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/mother-269/
