Show MY MOTHER DEAR There was a place in childhood that chat I remember well r And nd nd there a a. voice of sweetest tone bright brightS fairy tales did tell S sd And gentle ife words and fond em embrace race were with Joy to me When I was in that happy place upon place upon my mo mothers mother's e knee When fairy tales were ended Good Goodnight Goodnight Goodnight night she softly said sald And and laid me down to sleep S within my tiny bed And holy words she taught me there there- methinks I yet can see Her angel eyes as close I knelt beside my mothers mother's knee In the sickness of my roy childhood the perils of my prime The sorrows of my riper years the cares of evry time When doubt and danger me down then pleading all for for- me It was a fervent to Heaven that bent my mothers mother's knee e. e Samuel Lover |