Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1849-05-10
From Godey's Lady's Book for April.
CHRlST'S MOTHER.
By N. P. WILLIS.

And, TO regard his gentle face, and speak
Some fond word OF him 10 his youthful
mother,
Stayed, nom and eve, the humble Nazarenes
Who passed by Mary's door but thoughtfully
She listened 10 their praises, that so wide
VI her own knowledge fell, and let her heart
Look, with its answer, up 10 God. And day
Followed on day, like any chldhood's pass
ing;
And silently sat Mary at her wheel.
And watched the boy. Messiah as she spun;
And as human child unto his mother
Subject the while, he did her low-voiced
bidding
Or gently came 10 lean upon her knee,
And ask her Of the thoughts that in him stir,
Dimly as yet--or, with affections sweet
Tell, murmIing, OF His weariness-and
there,
All fenrful>heored las human mother
Unutterably fond while touched with awe,)
She paused, or with tremulous hand spun
The blessing that her lips instructive gave,
Asked OF him with an instant thought again.
And when they "went up TO jerusalem,
After the custom OF the Feast" and there
FULFILLED the days." and, back 10 Nozare,h
Went days journey, and sough, Jesus then
Among their kinsfolk who had gone before,
And found him not--Ihe mothers heart OF
Mary
Well knew, that, whatsoever stroyed the
child,
lie could not go by angels unattended;
But therefore UaS her tenderness untroubled?
NO!
Though in her memory lay Gabriol's words,
Brought her on wings at Gods own throne
unfold:
Though, in ropt speech, Anna the prophecies
He'd named him the Redeemer, newly born,
And Simeon, forbidden 10 see death
Till he had seen the Christ, had taken Him
Into his arms and prayed tina, he might now
Depart in peace-though OF the song they"
sang
(That host, who, while the glory of the
Lord
Shone round about, told OF His birth, BY
night,
Unto the shepherds as they walchod) she
knew
The theme was salvation unfulflled,
To him the savior given, and ye, 10 do
Still was the child she loved gone from fer
now,
And Mary sought him sOrro,cing."
And who
kept all His sayings in his heart" but
Mary?
1t was no. with unnatural brightness beams
ing
From the fair forehead OF the boy, nor yet
BY revelations from his infant lips
Too wondrous 10 deny, that Jesus first
Gave out the dawn OF the Messiah morn
Breaking within His thought. With wisdom
only.
Resch'd 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 frs, teachings, saw the Son Of God
And he went back 10 Nazareth, child
Unsough. by the dispuiing priests again,
And his strange words forgotten butby Mary
Who KEPT THEM II HER HEART"
Oh, not alone
In his pure teachings, and in Calvary's woe,
Ley the bles, errand OF the Saviour here!
His walk ,hro' LIES dark pathway gave ye.
moro,
distant from God so infinitely for
Was human weakness, till he came 10 beer,
With US, our weaknesses, awhile that fear
Had heard Jehovah s voice in thunder only,
And worshiped trembling. GoD Is NEARER
NOW.
At his right hand sits One who was a child,
Born as the humblest-and who here abode,
Till OF our sorrows He had suffered all.
They who now weep, remember that He
wept,
The tempted. the despised, the sorrowing
feel
That Jesus, too, drank OF these cups OF woe.
And oh, il Of our joys He tasted less
If all bu,9O passed from his lips away
Tha, one-a mothers lovely His partake
ing,
Is like thread Of Heaven spun through our
life,
And vein the unGring watch, the tears,
The tenderness and fond trust OF mother