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| William Baxter | For a Young Mother's Album (1846) |
| T H E L A D I E S ' R E P O S I T O R Y . |
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| A P R I L, 1 8 4 6 . |
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| F O R A Y O U N G M O T H E R ' S A L B U M . |
| BY WILLIAM BAXTER. |
| WRITE for your album! Shall I write Some legend dark of olden times-- How warriors fought for fame, or gold, Or ministrels sung in sunnier climes? Ah, no! a humbler strain be mine, Though to my ear 'tis sweeter far Than tales of banner'd hosts, and all The stern and proud delights of war. I'll tune my peaceful lyre to sing Of pleasures which know no alloy-- Which find their dearest haunts among The scenes of pure domestic joy. A slumb'ring babe's soft breathings seem To fall upon my list'ning ear; A mother by its cradle bed With look serene is ling'ring near. How sweet that calm, untroubled sleep! Yet when those silken eyelids part, What joy beams in that mother's eye-- What joy swells in that mother's heart! In gazing on a scene like this, I've smil'd to see that mother's pride, And thought that mother seem'd a rose-- The babe a rosebud by her side. Then be it thine to rear this flower, To teach its beauties to expand, Till child and mother, rose and bud, Shall bloom in heav'n's unfading land. |
[The Ladies' Repository 6 (April 1846): 110.]
ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC EDITION
William Baxter's "For a Young Mother's Album" was first published in The Ladies' Repository, and Gatherings of the West: A Monthly Periodical Devoted to Literature and Religion, Vol. 6, No. 4, April 1846, p. 110. This volume, edited by B. F. Tefft, was published in Cincinnati by L. Swormstedt and J. T. Mitchell and in New York by G. Lane and C. B. Tippett for the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Addenda and corrigenda are earnestly solicited.
Ernie Stefanik
Derry, PA
Created 9 April 2000.
Updated 28 June 2003.
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