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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=522585" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Step Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Well I recall my Father's wife,<br> The day he brought her home.<br> His children looked for years of strife,<br> And troubles sure to come --<br> Ungraciously we welcomed her,<br> A thing to scorn and blame;<br> And swore we never would confer<br> On her, a Mother's name</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> I see her yet -- a girl in years,<br> With eyes so blue and mild;<br> She greeted us with smiles and tears,<br> How sweetly too she smiled --<br> She bent to kiss my sullen brow,<br> With woman's gentle grace;<br> And laid her tiny hand of snow<br> On my averted face --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> &quot;Henry -- is this your son? She said --<br> &quot;Dear boy -- he now is mine --<br> What not one kiss? --&quot; I shook my head,<br> &quot;I am no son of thine! --&quot;<br> She sighed -- and from her dimpled cheek<br> The rosy colour fled;<br> She turned away and did not speak,<br> My thoughts were with the dead --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There leaped from out my Father's eyes<br> A jet of swarthy fire;<br> That flashed on me in fierce surprise --<br> I fled before his ire<br> I heard her gentle voice entreat --<br> &quot;Forgiveness for her sake&quot; --<br> Which added swiftness to my feet,<br> A sad and strange mistake --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> A year had scarcely rolled away<br> When by that hated bride;<br> I loved to linger half the day,<br> In very joy and pride;<br> Her voice was music to mine ear,<br> So soft its accent fell;<br> &quot;Dear Mother now&quot; -- and oh, how dear<br> No words of mine can tell --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> She was so gentle, fair and kind,<br> So pure in soul and free from art;<br> That woman with her noble mind,<br> Subdued my rebel heart --<br> I just had learned to know her worth,<br> My Father's second choice to bless;<br> When God removed her from the earth,<br> And plunged us all in deep distress --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Hot fever smote with burning blight<br> Stretchd on a restless bed of pain;<br> I moaning lay from morn till night<br> With aching limbs and throbbing brain --<br> Four weary weeks beside my bed,<br> She sat within a darkened room;<br> Untiring held my aching head,<br> Nor heeded silence -- cold and gloom --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> And when my courage quite gave way,<br> And fainter grew my struggling breath;<br> She taught my stricken soul to pray<br> And calmly meet approaching death --<br> &quot;Fear not God's angel, sent by Him,<br> The weary spirit to release;<br> Before the mortal eyes grow dim,<br> Floats down the white winged dove of peace&quot; --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> There came a change -- but fingers small,<br> No longer smoothed my matted hair;<br> She sprang not to my feeble call,<br> Nor helped to lift me to my chair --<br> And I arose as from the dead,<br> A life for her dear life was given;<br> The angel who had watched my bed<br> Had vanished into Heaven! --</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Susanna+Strickland+Moodie">Susanna Strickland Moodie</a><div class=q>
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 The day he brought her home.
 His children looked for years of strife,
 And troubles sure to come --
 Ungraciously we welcomed her,
 A thing to scorn and blame;
 And swore we never would confer
 On her, a Mother's ..."></div>
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