Friday, July 20, 2007

The Book Our Mothers Read

We search the world for truth; we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful,
From graven stone and written scroll.
And all old flower-fields of the soul;
And, weary seekers of the best,
We come back laden from the quest,
To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our mothers read.

--John Greenleaf Whittier

6 comments:

alternatefish said...

ha!

I like your blog because it keeps introducing me to poems/poets I've never heard of. this one might have to go in the next mother's day card.

astairesteps said...

Fish,

Thanks for the comment. I've been gone a while. Yes, pefect for Mother's Day. Good idea.

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:)

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