Mother o' Mine / Rudyard Kipling

Mother o' Mine

If I were hanged on the highest hill,
    Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
    Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
    Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
    Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were damned of body and soul,
   Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

I know whose prayers would make me whole,
    Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

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Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

from The Light that Failed, 1892

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada, the United States, and the European Union]

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