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i feel that in the heavens above

Because I feel that in the heavens above

The angels, whispering one to another,

Can find among their burning terms of love,

None so devotional as that of “Mother,”

Therefore by that dear name I have long called you,

You who are more than mother unto me,

And filled my heart of hearts, where death installed you,

In setting my Virginia’s spirit free.

My mother — my own mother, who died early,

Was but the mother of myself; but you

Are the mother to the one I loved so dearly,

And thus are dearer than the mother I knew

But that infinity with which my wife

Was dearer to my soul that its soul-life.