Repoet of Boaed of Geneeal Managees. 139 



By wisdom and power attended, 

 Jubilant mother of boys: 



Mother most tender and holy, 



Whose tears are as lovely as pearls; 

 Guardian of gentle and lowly, 



Delicate mother of girls: 



Mother of mountain and river. 



Who looketh from foam to foam — 

 Mother, the bountiful giver, 



Beautiful mother of home: 



Mother of sower and reaper, 



Of crops and of fruitful soil, 

 Of manhood the builder and keeper, 



Mother of glorified toil: 



Mother of fruit and of flower. 



Of the flocks' and herds' increase ; 

 Mother of sunbeam and shower. 



Plentiful mother of peace: 



Mother of scieuce, far-reaching, 



Of music that swells from thy heart. 

 Of beauty beyond the old teaching. 



Mother of purified art: 



Mother, whose bosom shall mingle 



The red of all blood that flows, 

 Till lastly it runneth as single 



And pure as the streams from snows: 



Mother, the roseate ever, 



Robed in the sunset's bars. 

 Mother of lofty endeavor. 



Crowned with the diamond stars: 



Mother, our love thy defender, 



Mother, thy love our might. 

 Mother, thy glory our splendor, 



Mother of freedom and light: 

 Mother America! 



