Note 28 — THE KISS IN HUMOROUS STORY AND ANECDOTE.
Reading edition
In the serious treatment of this idea the following lines from Whittier’s “Angels of Buena Vista” are among the most beautiful:
“Whispered low the dying soldier, pressed her hand and faintly smiled: Was that pitying face his mother’s? did she watch beside her child? All his stranger words with meaning her woman’s heart supplied; With her kiss upon his forehead, ‘Mother,’ murmured he, and died.”