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“What babe new born is this that in a manger cries? Near on her lowly bed his happy mother lies. Oh, see the air is shaken with white and heavenly wings-- This is the Lord of all the earth, this is the King of Kings.”

Earth Lying Mother Born White Lord Air Cry Kings Bed Wings Christmas Heavenly Babe

Book:The Celestial Passion

Source: The Celestial Passion

“Nature, the great Moloch, which exacts a frightful tax of human blood, sparing neither young nor old; taking the child from the cradle, the mother from her babe, and the father from the family.”

Humans Children Young Mother Father Nature Blood Taxes Cradle Babe

Book:Osler's

Source: Osler's

“A babe, by intercourse of touch I held mute dialogues with my Mother's heart.”

Heart Mother Dialogue Intercourse Babe Mute

Author:William Wordsworth

“We stole their babes and mothers, chiefs and braves Although we held the whip, you knew we were The real slaves To alchemy, human alchemy.”

Humans Real Mother Brave Slave Chiefs Whips Alchemy Babe

Author:Andy Partridge

“O what is it about having one's own Babe upon one's Hip that makes a Woman wish to go home to her Mother? A Desire to say: 'Look, the Circle is compleat'? A Desire to say: 'Look, I have cross'd the Divide and now am more like you'? A Desire to say: 'Look, this Babe I offer you is my most precious Gift'?”

Looks Home Mother Desire Wish Like You Offers Crosses Circles Hips Divides Babe Precious Gifts

Author:Erica Jong

“Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.”

Men Children Self Moments Young Mother Fear Miracle Salvation Protection Nurse Perpetual Helpless Babe Young Children Self Protection

Book:The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

Source: The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude

“A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts the lover afore words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first-born baby, and assures him of a mother's love.”