• Author: Unknown
• Editor:
• Newspaper: The Umpire volume V
• Page Number:
• Date: 6 5 1918
• Tags:
• poetry
• letter
• Jane Gates
• Honor Club
• gift

TO MRS. JANE GATES “LITTLE MOTHER” OF THE HONOR & FRIENDSHIP CLUB AN APPRECIATION

O Little Mother, were these blooms undying, They would be even as your good deeds are; Your words that give new courage for the trying, To be faithful to our Star: To that white Star of womanhood, Whose thought and motto is "Do Good.”

Heavy freighted is each bloom we send you, With deep and heart-felt gratitude of ours; To you,and that bright presence that attends you, More odorous than these flowers: To vivify the darkened soul, And point it to a better goal.

O Dear, and Little Mother of our hearts, Be pleased to take the little gift we send; You’ve healed so many of our wounds, and smarts, Have caused so many too-proud knees to bend; The blossoms that we give to you, Are but a memory of your due.

To the Members of the Honor And Friendship Club:

I cannot find words in my puny vocabulary to thank the members of the Honor and Friendship Club for the lovely basket of flowers they so kindly sent me. I could not keep back the tears, I was so impressed. Our lives are all Crucified between smiles and tears, and tears for many loved ones of my own, make my sympathy for you all deeper; I wish I cculd do more, but: since I can’t, I earnestly pray that the Great and truer. Comforter may bring the balm that no earthly hand can give.

LITTLE MOTHER.