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The Wives and the Mothers of Britain.
1835.
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[Set to music by—Johnson, of Preston, in Lancashire, and—for private circulation—by Elias Chadwick, Esq., then of Swinton Hall. Manchester.]
Let each fill his glass, fill it up to the brim,
For my toast is well worthy a full one,
Nor would I give much for the feelings of him
Who should deem it a vapid and dull one:
For him not a wine-cup deservedly foams,
Whatever gay room he may sit in;
I give you the Women that brighten our homes—
“The Wives and the Mothers of Britain!”
For my toast is well worthy a full one,
Nor would I give much for the feelings of him
Who should deem it a vapid and dull one:
For him not a wine-cup deservedly foams,
Whatever gay room he may sit in;
I give you the Women that brighten our homes—
“The Wives and the Mothers of Britain!”
'Tis a toast comprehensive—it leaves no one out
Whose smiles make an English hearth pleasant,
From the fair cottage-matron that, rosy and stout,
Delights the bold heart of the peasant—
From her to the dame of the stateliest hall
Our proudest nobility sit in,
And up to the Queen, who presides over all,
The Wives and the Mothers of Britain!
Whose smiles make an English hearth pleasant,
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Delights the bold heart of the peasant—
From her to the dame of the stateliest hall
Our proudest nobility sit in,
And up to the Queen, who presides over all,
The Wives and the Mothers of Britain!
Nor will we forget the sweet rose-buds that blow
Beneath the kind eye of those mothers;
Whose hearts are their own, yet not long may be so,
But devotedly, meekly, another's.
Let us hope that their sons will be patriots true,
Like those of the room that we sit in;
And still be it felt there is reverence due
To the Wives and the Mothers of Britain!
Beneath the kind eye of those mothers;
Whose hearts are their own, yet not long may be so,
But devotedly, meekly, another's.
Let us hope that their sons will be patriots true,
Like those of the room that we sit in;
And still be it felt there is reverence due
To the Wives and the Mothers of Britain!
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