Mother o’ Mine
by Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
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If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!
About this text
- Poet
- Rudyard Kipling, 1865–1936
- Printing used
- The Light That Failed (1891), dedication
- First published
- 1891
- Public domain
- This printing 1891, before 1931
- Often chosen
- for mom, non-religious, short