Mother's Love

One calm,bright,sweet,sunshine
day,an angel stole out a heaven and
came down to this old world,and roamed field
and forest,city and hamlet.
Just as the sun went down

he spread his wings and
said:"Now my visit is out,and I must go

back to the world of light.But
before I go,I must gather some mementos

of my visit here."He looked
into a beautiful flower garden and said,"How lovely

and fragrant these flowers

are".He plucked the rarest roses and made

a bouquet and

said,"I see nothing more

beautiful and fragrant than these;

I will take them with me."But he looked a

little further and saw a bright-eyed,

rosy-cheeked baby,

smiling into its mother's

face.And he said,"Oh,that baby's smile

is prettier than this bouquet;I will take

that too."Then he looked just beyond the cradle

and there was a mother's

love pouring out like the gush of a river

toward the cradle and the baby.And he

said,"Oh,that mother's love is the prettiest

thing I have seen on earth;I will

carry that,too."With the three treasures

he winged his way to the

pearly gates,and lit just on the outside

and said,"Before I go in,I will examine

my mementos."And he looked at the flowers

and they had withered.He looked at the

baby's smile and it had faded.He looked

at the mother's love and there it was,in

all it's pristine beauty.He threw aside

the withered flowers and faded

smile,and wing his way through the gates and led

all the hosts of heaven

together and said,"Here is the only thing

I found on earth that would keep

its beauty all the way to heaven-

It is a mother's love