Front matter
Reading edition
JULIA CARTER ALDRICH,
(PETRESIA PETERS.)
HAZEL BLOOM,
BY JULIA CARTER ALDRICH. (PETRESIA PETERS.)
Mother! O, holy music in the sound Of that dear word—Mother! O, visions sweet That crowd the mind and thickly cluster round, To drive out tempting wiles, and leave replete The soul’s most lofty plans, and purest thought! * * * * * Could man have known the part divine, repressed Through youthful life, for noblest womanhood, When she should pass to dear maternity— Had he the Christ, in Mother, rightly known, Kind Heaven had spared the pains of Calvary. Through her the first of Heavenly love is shown— Through her, first glimpses caught of Christ, of God. B. F. Aldrich.
BUFFALO: Charles Wells Moulton, 1899.
Copyright by Julia Carter Aldrich. 1899.
In memory of that sainted one, My Mother, This volume is inscribed to the Mothers— The Home-makers of our land, By one who has known The breadth and depth Of maternal hope and joy— Whose soul has continually drank, Thro’ all the years of Motherhood, From that well-spring of Blessing— Unfailing, filial devotion.
J. C. A.