MOTHERHOOD MOTHERHOOD
MOTHERHOOD 1 Stabat mater, dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrymosa Que pendebat Filius. At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping, Where He hung, the dying Lord. Anon. Trans, by Dr. Irons. 22 Alma mater. Fostering mother. Applied by students to the university where they have graduated, 3 [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." Augustine BiKRELii—Obiter Dicta. Phrase used also by De Qutncey—Confessions of anOpiumEater. Pt. I. Referring to Oxford Street, London. 4 A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Coleridge—The Three Graves. St. 10. 5 The mother of all living. Genesis. III. 20.
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There is none,
In all this cold and hollow world, no fount
Of deep, strong, deathless love, save that within
A mother's heart.
Mrs. Hemans—Siege of Valencia. Sc. Boom
in a Palace of Valencia.
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The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter,
bid thy daughter tell her daughter .that her daughter's daughter hath a daughter."
George Hakewill—Apologie. Bk. III. Ch. V. Sec. 9.
Mater ait natae die natse filia natum
Ut moneat natae plangere filiolam.
The mother says to her daughter: Daughter
bid thy daughter, to tell her daughter, that her daughter's daughter is crying.
See Greswell—Account of Runcorn. P. 34.
Another trans. : Rise up daughter, and go to thy daughter, For her daughter's daughter hath a daughter. Another old form in Willets'
' Hexapla,iaLemiicum. Ch. XXVI. 9.
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I arose a mother in Israel.
V. 7.
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If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
Kipling—Mother 0' Mine.
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There was a place in childhood that I remember well,
And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell.
Samuel Lover—My Mother Dear.
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A woman's love
Is mighty, but a mother's heart is weak,
And by its weakness overcomes.
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The bravest battle that ever was fought;
Shall I tell you where and when?
On the maps of the world you will find it not;
It was fought by the mothers of men.
Joaquin Miller—The Bravest Battle. Mothers
of Men.
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Her children arise up and call her blessed.
Proverbs. XXXI. 28.
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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. William Stewart Ross ("Saladin
