Volume 10 — A MOTHERS' MEETING[4]
Reading edition
A MOTHERS' MEETING[4]
BY MADELINE BRIDGES
"Where's the maternal parent of This boy that stands in need of beating, And of this babe that pines for love?" "Oh, she is at a Mothers' Meeting!" "Fair daughter, why these young tears shed, For passion's tale, too sweet and fleeting, Lonely and mute, uncomforted?" "My mother's at a Mothers' Meeting." "Man, whom misfortunes jeer and taunt, Whom frauds forsake, and hope is cheating, Fly to your mother's arms." "I can't— You see, she's at a Mothers' Meeting." Alas, what next will woman do? Love, duty, children, home, maltreating, The while she, smiling, rallies to The roll-call of a Mothers' Meeting!