The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-03-23
g H0dkIdrror The HERALD
A MOTHERS COUNSEL.
BY GAEKELL.


heart,
Makes counsel Hox ing from loved moth
er's lips;
That striking on the ears OF youth
sweetly,
Makes virtue smile-mskes deep integ.
rity, rees ID
An inmate o. the soul and causes
dreams,
The child INDUCES in to fly before
Reality. Not so bright the scenes, OF
hues,
Impaired to our manhood's eyes, FOL
they
Have not the mirage of our youth, and
Mere facts, culled from life's expert
eDce-
Real things that are unclothed with ths
Poetic zeal, Turing to childhood's hours
All! bright our scenes in youth-instruc
i tive too
The counsel from @ loving mothers lips
When evening comes, to lay oar heac
upon
Her knee, and meet her kindly eye. lii
with
Love maternal, that smiling welcome tG
Our heart, in treasured sweetness line:
upon
Cur inmost soul her form; so beautiful
A mothers love, so kind, 30 good, SC
grand,
That cen the savage heart is tanned, and
gall
Is turned to honey. Her smile lights up
the
Darkest night, and lifts the cloud Of an
guish from
The boyish heart.
The scene will often change
Perhaps the prison cell is now his home;
The felon's fate his doom; hope no
longer lives,
But dark on eY'ry hand the adverse
clouds
Descend. Guilt shrosds his heart, and
terrible
Its darkness lowers-so grim, so horrible
Its presence, that bolIe and bars we're
heaven
To its enshrsllment. Are not then q
mothers
Teachings felt? Not then her anxious
Wstchings
Priced? How pure her love-hsr soul
how vast,
To face the ills, the woes Of life, to rescue
thee,
Her child from dresded death. Though
fell disease,
Contagious in its virulenca, were thine,
And each embrace were death, yet still
she'd clasp
Thee to her bosom, and call death
blessed,
So thou miahtst live. Even now, when
infamy
Around thy name il cliuging-when to
Thee, is but to meet the snsers, the SCOTS
Worldly wisdom, Jet still she loves thee,
[nfamy. dishonor, weigh as chaG 'sainat
Love maternal.
And in ye! darker hour
Of life, when all srpund gaia on in scorn,
end turn with coolest look away from |
Then within thy soal arise scenes long |
II ehiIdhood's hours, when innocence
was thine;
When guileleas sport were done, to sit
beside
Ter ehsir and listen to her voices music, |
Relating godlike deeds. Do sights like
these
ye'er pass thy mind and gosd thy spirit I
% fiery desperation? Nethinks hear
he answer - mo nsore - 'tis past, 1
Lethe's waters /
We're preferable to fierce regret. or
that
were nine-thought poi
cons ell,
md when I would do wrong, my moth
er's form
approaches me, but mad, wild desire
still
mother scene-'tis of the wise.
Where mothers words 9 good.y fruit
hath borne,
'eading hesvenwsrd every effort made.
: world's renown are his, but far more
valued
] that inward peace bespeaking soul at
rest,
nd won BY following maternal counsel.
ne enc, .iess breath Of adverse fate can
meier
ppall aoul like thia, wherein submits.
sion
o heavens DEGREES, is founzs and priced.
he coneuefing mailman Knows it not. !,
for he r
,esires destruction, blood end. anarchy,
hat midst the flames Of discord ne may
mount
o worldly fame and rule mankind.
That blood
md fire, AID corse, may stew the mify
field
Where fends combat and perish. All!
good, wise,
8 he who rightly livea- who loves sweet
md meath her mar dates lives to bless
her.
Sat yet how many scenes datken lies |
md show the folly of hunsn power,
'f manhood's aspirations, its insane
hopes.
When dire tenn ptstions shroud in gloom
the path !,
We walk in, how weak our wisdom I?
how vain,
low triaiug effort, aud erm resolve
10 confident 10 virtues hour, before the
breath
u adverse winds is Is the ehsngef
.ephyrs, kissing ev'ry flower, The bad
Is we'll "a rood, So ye IN earthv life