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Motherhood: First mere laying of an egg, / With blind foreseeing of the wisest place, / And blind provision of the proper food / For unseen larva to grow fat upon / After the instinct-guided mother died,- / Posthumous motherhood, no love, no joy.
Motherhood: Brooding patient o'er the nest, / With gentle stirring of an unknown love; / Defending eggs unhatched, feeding the young / For days of callow feebleness, and then / Driving the fledglings from the nest to fly.