58 National Geographic Magazine. 



" I see the patient mother read, 

 With aching heart, of wrecks that float 

 Disabled on those seas remote, 

 Or of some great heroic deed 

 On battle fields, where thousands bleed 

 To lift one hero into fame. 

 Anxious she bends her graceful head 

 Above these chronicles of pain, 

 And trembles with a secret dread 

 Lest there, among the drowned or slain, 

 She find the one beloved name." 



