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 MOTHERHOOD MOTHERHOOD MOTHERHOOD 1 Stabat mater, dolorosa Juxta crucem lacrymosa Que pendebat Filius. At the cross, her station keeping, Stood the mournful mother, weeping, Where He hung, the dying Lord. Anon. Trans, by Dr. Irons. 22 Alma mater. Fostering mother. Applied by students to the university where they have graduated, 3 [Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother." Augustine BiKRELii—Obiter Dicta. Phrase used also by De Qutncey—Confessions of anOpiumEater. Pt. I. Referring to Oxford Street, London. 4 A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive. Coleridge—The Three Graves. St. 10. 5 The mother of all living. Genesis. III. 20. | note = | topic = Motherhood | page = 531 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = 14 They say man rules the universe, That subject shore and main Kneel down and bless the empery Of his majestic reign; But a sovereign, gentler, mightier, Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle * Is the hand that rules the world. William Stewart Ross ("Saladin