<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371637" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnet: My Mother in Old-age</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Octogenarian now, how well she writes, <br>My mother to me still, in her own hand! <br>The Scriptures, good advice, how well she cites! <br>Her old-aged pen serves like a fairy’s wand! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">She has been doing thus for years and years; <br>Though old-aged, by sheer will-power she lives; <br>Tho’ slightly deaf and blocked by wax, her ears; <br>Her eyes see well! What advice she just gives! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her only plea to me was to write back; <br>I used to visit her often, not now; <br>Of keeping children good, she had the knack; <br>She is my mother great who has such love. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">God give her health of body, mind, I pray; <br>Indeed, she is my mother sweet, I say.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Celes">John Celes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=371637" data-title="Sonnet: My Mother in Old-age de John Celes" data-description="Octogenarian now, how well she writes, My mother to me still, in her own hand! The Scriptures, good advice, how well she cites! Her old-aged pen serves like a fairy’s wand! She has been doing thus for years and years; Though old-aged, by s..."></div> </div> </div>

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