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 There is none,
 In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
  Of deep, strong, deathless love, read more 
 There is none,
 In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
  Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
   A mother's heart. 
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she read more
A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie.
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the read more
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot
 They say man rules the universe,
 That subject shore and main
  Kneel down and bless the empery
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 They say man rules the universe,
 That subject shore and main
  Kneel down and bless the empery
   Of his majestic reign;
    But a sovereign, gentler, mightier,
     Man from his throne has hurled,
      For the hand that rocks the cradle
       Is the hand that rules the world. 
 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
  So read more 
 That it should come to this,
 But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two,
  So excellent a king, that was to this
   Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother
    That he might not beteem the winds of heaven
     Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth,
      Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him
       As if increase of appetite had grown
        By what it fed on, and yet within a month--
         Let me not think on't; frailty, thy name is woman--
          A little month, or ere those shoes were old
           With which she followed my poor father's body
            Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she--
             O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason
              Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle,
               My father's brother, but no more like my father
                Than I to Hercules. 
 They say that man is mighty,
 He governs land and sea,
  He wields a mighty scepter
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 They say that man is mighty,
 He governs land and sea,
  He wields a mighty scepter
   O'er lesser powers that be;
    But a mightier power and stronger
     Man from his throne has hurled,
      For the hand that rocks the cradle
       Is the hand that rules the world. 
 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, 
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a read more 
 The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, 
until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel. 
 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. 
 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, 
and he praiseth her.  
 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, 
and he praiseth her.