Denied Motherhood

By Maude B. Rasmussen
Magrath, Canada

Task’s completed;
And a noble mother-heart is still.
Mother-heart, I say,
Though she never knew the joy
Of a baby girl or boy
Of her own.
Just how much her soul has yearned
For that love, no one has learned
But God alone.
To lone orphans
Was her deep devotion freely given,
Night and day,
And no task was found too great,
Nor the hours too long to wait,
To give aid.
In the realms beyond the years,
May through her love, her prayers and tears,
Amends be made.

(1925)