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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.
 A mother is a mother still,
 The holiest thing alive.  
 A mother is a mother still,
 The holiest thing alive. 
 Fostering mother.
 [Lat., Alma mater.]  
 Fostering mother.
 [Lat., Alma mater.] 
 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. 
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
 A woman's love
 Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
  And by its weakness overcomes.  
 A woman's love
 Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
  And by its weakness overcomes. 
 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." 
 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. 
 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
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 At the cross, her station keeping,
 Stood the mournful mother, weeping,
  Where He hung, the dying Lord.
   [Lat., Stabat mater, dolorosa
    Juxta crucem lacrymosa
     Que pendebat Filius.]