Nature the gentlest mother is,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest of the waywardest.
Her admonition mild
...
Nature, the gentlest mother,
Impatient of no child,
The feeblest or the waywardest,
Her admonition mild
...
If Nature smiles - the Mother must
I'm sure, at many a whim
Of Her eccentric Family -
...