To the kiss that his love should show,—

The mouth to speak while the spirit slept!

Great Love listened, and blushed, and wept

That they blasphemed him so.

MOTHERHOOD.

Motherhood: First mere laying of an egg,

With blind foreseeing of the wisest place,

And blind provision of the proper food

For unseen larva to grow fat upon

After the instinct-guided mother died,—