Poem by Alice Meynell

Maternity

One wept whose only child was dead,
    New-born, ten years ago.
"Weep not; he is in bliss," they said.
    She answered, "Even so,

"Ten years ago was born in pain
    A child, not now forlorn.
But oh, ten years ago, in vain,
    A mother, a mother was born."

1. To Silence
2. Free Will
3. The Two Questions
4. To Sylvia
5. To Tintoretto in Venice

Robert Service Maternity ("There once was a Square, such a square little Square")

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