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When I was young we spent a lot of time in the summers in northern Ontario. Spending the summers in the back woods is honestly some of my favourite memories.

We sometimes would go into town and I was an avid reader so would love to get books from the library. When I was about 11 I found a book
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DeAnna Munchkin
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there of local poems from a man named Theodore Peacock. I became obsessed with this book so eventually my mom bought me a copy. I still have it to this day. There was one poem in particular that stuck with me. Even 30 years later I can recite this poem off by heart. So without further ado, I present
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DeAnna Munchkin
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Mother Love by Theodore Peacock

Last night, from the peak of yonder cliff,
I heard a Mother Wolf's long call;
A dreary, sad, and solemn note
No answer came to her at all.

She called and called the whole night through
Until the break of day,
Then, with lowered head and drooping tail,
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To some swamp to hide she crawled away.

Tonight, I know, she will be back
To call, and call again.
And many nights she will be back
But it will all be in vain.

It is Mother Love that brings her here;
Only time will kill the pain
Of parting from her little whelps
That were so cruelly slain.
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For yesterday, the hunters came
And from a hidden seat
A hunter saw the little wolves
As they fed upon some meat.

A hail of bullets filled the air
That blasted out the breath
Of those lovely creatures of the wild
So gruesome now in death.

Tonight, that hunter, drinking,
Will boast about the day
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About how will skill and eye so true
He took the wolf cubs lives' away.

To all of his assembled friends
He will proclaim it as a thrill.
But little does he think
About the mother on the hill.
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