Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be -
I had a mother who read to me.
Strickland Gillilan
Painting - 'The First Lesson' by Samuel Baruch Halle (1824-89)
Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall: A mother's secret love outlives them all. (O W Holmes)
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord"... Psalms 92:1
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