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 The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell 
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a read more 
 The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell 
her daughter that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter." 
 If I were hanged on the highest hill,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
  I know read more 
 If I were hanged on the highest hill,
 Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
  I know whose love would follow me still,
   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! 
 The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion 
against the existing law is the saddling read more 
 The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion 
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child 
with the obligation to become the servant of a man. 
 Fostering mother.
 [Lat., Alma mater.]  
 Fostering mother.
 [Lat., Alma mater.] 
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
of all living.  
 And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother 
of all living. 
 There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
 And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy read more 
 There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
 And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. 
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he read more
When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.
 Happy he
 With such a mother! faith in womankind
  Beats with his blood, and trust in all read more 
 Happy he
 With such a mother! faith in womankind
  Beats with his blood, and trust in all things high
   Comes easy to him, and though he trip and fall,
    He shall not blind his soul with clay. 
 The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to 
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
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 The mother says to her daughter: Daughter bid thy daughter, to 
her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
 [Lat., Mater ait natae die natae filia natum
  Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.]