MOTHER
So long as young men and maidens honor and love their parents there is hope and success awaiting them. We do not know the author of these lines:
Of all the names to memory dear,
One name to me alone is dearest;
Tho many names to me are near
Yet this shall ever be the nearest.
For on my heart’s most sacred place
’Tis deeper graved than any other;
Nor naught from thence shall e’er erase
The lovely, honored name of mother.