The sweet, wild laugh of an innocent child.

There’s the laugh that I love, the balm of tired hearts,

That quiets the fluttering temples of care;

’Tis the soft, soothing laugh from the sweet lips of Love,

And it falls like a blessing that answers prayer.

There’s the sweetest of laughs full of music divine

That gladdens the heart and the throbbing brain;

I would give—oh what would I not, were it mine,

But to hear the sweet laugh of my mother again.