Excerpt from The Talk of the Household: Poems

To whom shall this small tribute dedicated be?
So many loves within my heart hold sway:
First thou, my other self, whose strong true heart
Has been my Pilot over all the way,
Then ye, dear honored guides of early years -
Father and Mother - thro' whose love were shed
The seeds which springing into light have strewn
These lowly blossoms o'er the path I tread,
And ye, my Children, who in after years
May dearly prize these records of our day
When they have sunk to silence in the Past,
And she who wrote them may have passed away.

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