NATURE, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest, –
Her admonition mild
By forest and the hill
By traveller is heard,
Restraining rampant squirrel
Or too impetuous bird.
How fair her conversation,
A summer afternoon, –
Her household, her assembly;
Abd when the sun goes down
Her voice among the aisles
Incittes thet timid prayer
Of the minutest cricket,
The most unworthy flower.
When all the children sleep
She turns as long away
As will suffice to light her lamps;
Then, bending from the sky,
With in finite affection
And infiniter care,
Her goldern finger on her lip,
Wills silence everywhere.
— Emily Dickinson