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You call authority a grievous thing	A
With careless hands you snap the leading string	A
And for a frolic so it seems to you	B
Put off the old love and put on the new	B
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For What does Mother know of love you say	C
Did her soul ever thrill	D
Did little tendernesses ever creep	E
Into her dreams and over ride her will	D
Did her eyes shine or her heart ever leap	E
As my heart leaps to day	C
I who am young who long to try my wings	F
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How should she understand	G
She with her calm cool hand	G
She never felt such yearnings And beside	H
It's clear I can't be tied	H
For ever to my mother's apron strings	F
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There are Infinities of Knowledge dear	I
And there are mysteries not yet made clear	I
To you the Uninitiate Life's book	J
Is open yes but you may only look	J
At its first section Youth	K
Is part not all the truth	K
It is impossible that you should see	L
The end from the beginning perfectly	L
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You answer Even so	M
But how can Mother know	M
Who meditates upon the price of bacon	N
On 'liberties' the charwoman has taken	N
And on the laundry's last atrocities	O
She knows her cookery book	J
And how a joint of English meat should look	J
But all such things as these	O
Make up her life She dwells in tents but I	P
In a vast temple open to the sky	P
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Yet time was when that Mother stooped to learn	Q
The language written in your infant face	R
For years she walked your pace	R
And none but she interpreted your chatter	S
Who else felt interest in such pitter patter	S
Or weary joined in all your games with zest	T
And managed with a minimum of rest	T
Now is it not your turn	Q
To bridge the gulf to span the gap between you	B
To day before Death's angel over lean you	B
Before your chance is gone	U
This is worth thinking on	V
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Are mothers blameless then Nay dearie nay	C
Nor even tactful always Yet there may	C
Come some grey dawning in the by and by	P
When no more brave nor sure nor strong you'll cry	P
Aloud to God for that despised thing	A
The old dear comfort Mother's apron string	A

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