| Show SPEAK KINDLY TO THY MOTHER youn young man speak kindly to thy mother and courteously c urte tenderly of her but a little time and you u shall see her no more forever her eye e I 1 is kodim dim and her form is ig bent and her shadow adow falls toward the grave others Other may love you fondly but never again while time 19 ia I 1 YD yours urs shall any ones love be tu to you as that of our 11 weakened mother has been T through rough helpless infancy her throbbing breast was your safe protection an anil I 1 support in wayward testy boyhood she bore patiently with your thoughtless r rudeness dances U she nursed you safely through a legion of ills and maladies her hand bathed your burning brow or moistened your parched 11 lips P 9 here her eye Y e lighted up the vigils vigils watching sleepless by your side as aa none but her could watch 0 speak not her name lightly cannot live so many years as would suffice to thank her fully albrough reckless and impatient youth she is your counsellor and solace to a briget manhood she guides yourl steps for improvement g nor even then forsakes or forgets speak gently then and when you too shall be old it shall is ir some degree lighten the remorse which shall be yours for other sins to know that never wantonly have you outraged the respect due to your aged mother |
