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  • Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
    Gives and receives all bliss,--
    fullest when most
    Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
    Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
    O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

    Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”