<h2><i><SPAN name="TO_MY_MOTHER"></SPAN>TO MY MOTHER</i></h2>
<p class="quotc">[His Mother-in-law, Mrs. Clemm.]</p>
<p class="poem">
Because I feel that, in the Heavens above,<br/>
<span class="ind1">The angels, whispering to one another,</span><br/>
Can find, among their burning terms of love,<br/>
<span class="ind1">None so devotional as that of "Mother,"</span><br/>
Therefore by that dear name I long have called you—<br/>
<span class="ind1">You who are more than mother unto me,</span><br/>
And fill my heart of hearts, where Death installed you<br/>
<span class="ind1">In setting my Virginia's spirit free.</span><br/>
My mother—my own mother, who died early,<br/>
<span class="ind1">Was but the mother of myself; but you</span><br/>
Are mother to the one I loved so dearly,<br/>
<span class="ind1">And thus are dearer than the mother I knew</span><br/>
By that infinity with which my wife<br/>
<span class="ind1">Was dearer to my soul than its soul-life.</span><br/></p>
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