The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1849-06-14
CHRISTS MOTHER. BY N. P. WILLIS.

Thoughts suggested by the Second Chapter of Luke.
- The boy was sad yet fair.
The ne mnIyels af his birth were strange to hear.
Some fond words Of him to his youthful mother
Stayed. morn and eve the humble Nazarines
Who passed by Mary's door; but thoughtfuly
She listened to their praises, that so wide
or her own knowledge fell and lie, her heart
Followed on day like any cbildhood's passing;
AND s wssbd 1t "a Mary II hsI wheel She s,un
And human child unto its mother
Subject " the while. He did her low voice bidding
or gently came to lean upon her knee,
And ask her of the thonghts that in him stirred
nimly as yet-oT, with affection sweet,
Tell, m1rmurlng, of his wearness-and there,
All fearful hearted, (as human mother
Enutteraby fond, while touched with awe)
The blessings that her lips instructive gave,
Asked of Him with an instant thought again.
And when they went up to Jerusalem.
AftaI the custom Of the feast" and there
Fulfilled the DAYS" and. back to Nazareth
Went days journey, and sought Jesus then
Among their kinsfoik who had gone before,
Al And found him not, the mothers heart of Mary
We'll knew that, whefesoever straysd the child,
He could not 20 by angels unattended;
But therefore pas her tenderness untronbied ?-No!
Though in her memory lay GabriePs words.
Brought on her wings at Gods throne uniolded
Though, in wIapt speech Anna the prophecies
Had named Him the Redeemer, newly born
And Simeon. forbidden to see death
Till he had seen the Christ had taken Him
Into his arms, and prayed hat he might now
Chat host Who While the glory Of the Lord 'A'S'
Shone round about, told of his birth BY night.
The theme was salvation unfuhlled.
To Him the Saviour given and yet to do
still was the child she loved gone from her now,
And who
kept all his sayings in her heart" but May!
l. was not with unnatural brightness beaming
From the fair forehead of the boy, nor yet
BY revelations from his infant lips
Too WOndOus TO deny, that Jesus first
Gave out The dawn of the Messiah morn
Breaking within Ills thought. With wisdom only
Reach by the child simplicity. so oft
Truer than sage's lore. and outward pressed
By the divinity half conscious now,
He argued in the Temple, and amazed
The elders sitting in their midst-but none
In these first teachings saw the Son Of God
And he went back 10 N Nazareth child
UnsOught by the dsputing priests again,
And his strange words forgotten. but By Mary,
Uh0 " KEPT THEM IN HER HEART !!
Oh, not alone
In his pure teachings and in Calvary's woe,
Lay the best errand of the Saviour ] ere
His walk throug life dark pathway gave yet more.
Distant from God infinitely far
Was human weakness, till he came to bear,
With U.S. weakness awhile. that fear
Had heard Jehovah's voice in thunder only,
And worshipped rembliDgy. Con Is NEARER NOW.
AT His right hand sits One who was a child
Born as the humbIest-and who here abode,
Till of our sorrUws lie had suffered all
They who now weep, remember that lie wept,
The tempted the despised the sOrrowns, feel
That Jesus, too, dIank of these cups Of woe
And oh. if of our JOYS he tasted less
II all but one passed from his lips away
That One-a mothers love BY his panahing
Is like thread of heaven spun through our life,
AGd In the uniIrIng watch, the tears,
The tenderness. ard fond trust OF a mother
May tet heavenly closeness unto God.
For such, all human in its best cIecss.
WAS MARY's LOVE FOR JESUS. (Lady's Book.