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ELSIE'S MOTHERHOOD
A Sequel to Elsie's Womanhood
by
MARTHA FINLEY (FARQUHARSON)
Author of The Story of Elsie, Casella, Wanted, a Pedigree, Old-Fashioned Boy, etc.
1876
"Sweet is the image of the brooding dove!
Holy as heaven a mother's tender love!
The love of many prayers and many tears,
Which changes not with dim declining years—
The only love which, on this teeming earth,
Asks no return for passion's wayward birth."