The parted family and other poems

by Mary Dana Shindler

I listen’d to the soothing voice,

And peace return’d again;

I ask’d for sweet submission, too,

And did not ask in vain.

FOOTNOTE

[7] The waters of the Mississippi, above the Missouri, are very different in their character from those below. Below, they are, like the Missouri waters, turbulent and muddy; above, they are singularly tranquil and clear, excepting at the rapids. Bloomington, the scene of the preceding poems, is situated on the western bank of the Mississippi, two or three hundred miles above St. Louis.

TO MY MOTHER.

Written after reading the following sentence in one of her letters to Mr. Dana, received by Mrs. D. after his death:—“Come to us, my dear children, as soon as you can.”

Dear Mother! dear Mother! we cannot come now,

I fly to your arms alone;