Dreamers and Other Poems

<p><SPAN name="MOTHERS_OF_MEN" id="MOTHERS_OF_MEN"></SPAN>MOTHERS OF MEN</p> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Mothers of men&mdash;the words are good indeed in the saying,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">Pride in the very sound of them, strength in the sense of them, then</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Why is it their faces haunt me, wistful faces as praying</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Ever some dear thing vanished and ever a hope delaying,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Mothers of Men?</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Mothers of Men, most patient, tenderly slow to discover</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">The loss of the old allegiance that may not return again.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">You give a man to the world, you give a woman a lover&mdash;</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Where is your solace then when the time of giving is over,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Mothers of Men?</span><br/> <br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Mothers of Men, but surely, the title is worth the earning.</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 3em;">You who are brave in feigning must I ever behold you then</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">By the door of an empty heart with the lamp of faith still burning,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Watching the ways of life for the sight of a child returning,</span><br/> <span style="margin-left: 8em;">Mothers of Men?</span><br/> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />