Happy Mother's Day!!

A picture memory brings to me;I look across the years and see Myself beside my mother's knee.I feel her gentle hand restrain My selfish moods, and know again A child's blind sense of wrong and pain.But wiser now, a man gray grown,My childhood's needs are better known.My mother's chastening love I own.-- John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)