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From the door of the homestead the mother looks forth	A
With a glance half of hope half of fear	B
For the clock in the corner now points to the hour	C
When the children she loves should appear	B
For have they not promised whatever betide	D
On this their dear mother's birthday	E
To gather once more round the family board	F
Their dutiful service to pay	E
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From the East and the West from the North and the South	G
In communion and intercourse sweet	H
Her children have come on this festival day	E
To sit as of old at her feet	H
And our mother God bless her benevolent face	I
How her heart thrills with motherly joys	J
As she stands at the portal with arms opened wide	D
To welcome her girls and her boys	J
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And yet when the first joyful greetings are o'er	C
When the words of her welcome are said	K
A shadow creeps over her motherly face	I
As she silently thinks of the dead	K
Of the children whose voices once rang through her fields	L
Who shared all her hopes and alarms	M
Till tired with the burden and heat of the day	E
They have fallen asleep in her arms	M
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They have gone from our midst but their labors abide	D
On the fields where they prayerfully wrought	N
They scattered the seed but the harvest is ours	O
By their toil and self sacrifice bought	P
As we scan the fair scene that once greeted their eyes	Q
As we tread the same paths which they trod	R
Let us tenderly think of our elders by birth	S
Who have gone to their rest and their God	R
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God bless the old homestead some linger there still	T
In the haunts which their childhood has known	U
While others have wandered to places remote	V
And planted new homes of their own	U
But Time cannot weaken the ties Love creates	W
Nor absence nor distance impede	X
The filial devotion which thrills all our hearts	Y
As we bid our old mother God speed	X

Horatio Alger, Jr.

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