Poem: “Mother’s Glasses” by Edgar A. Guest

A Heap o’ Livin’

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Mother’s Glasses

  I’ve told about the times that Ma can’t find
      her pocketbook,
  And how we have to hustle round for it to help
      her look,
  But there’s another care we know that often
      comes our way,
  I guess it happens easily a dozen times a day.
  It starts when first the postman through the
      door a letter passes,
  And Ma says: “Goodness gracious me! Wherever
      are my glasses?”

  We hunt ’em on the mantelpiece an’ by the
      kitchen sink,
  Until Ma says: “Now, children, stop, an’ give
      me time to think
  Just when it was I used ’em last an’ just
      exactly where.
  Yes, now I know—the dining room. I’m sure
      you’ll find ’em there.”
  We even look behind the clock, we busy boys
      an’ lasses,
  Until somebody runs across Ma’s missing pair of
      glasses.

  We’ve found ’em in the Bible, an’ we’ve found
      ’em in the flour,
  We’ve found ’em in the sugar bowl, an’ once
      we looked an hour
  Before we came across ’em in the padding of
      her chair;
  An’ many a time we’ve found ’em in the topknot
      of her hair.
  It’s a search that ruins order an’ the home
      completely wrecks,
  For there’s no place where you may not find
      poor Ma’s elusive specs.

  But we’re mighty glad, I tell you, that the
      duty’s ours to do,
  An’ we hope to hunt those glasses till our time
      of life is through;
  It’s a little bit of service that is joyous in its
      thrill,
  It’s a task that calls us daily an’ we hope it
      always will.
  Rich or poor, the saddest mortals of all the
      joyless masses
  Are the ones who have no mother dear to lose
      her reading glasses.

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