John Boyle O'Reilly

My Mother’s Memory

There is one bright star in heaven
   Ever shining in my night;
God to me one guide has given
   Like the sailor’s beacon light,
Set on every shoal of danger
   Sending out its warning ray
To the homebound weary stranger
   Looking for the land-locked bay.
In my farthest, wildest wand’rings
   I have turned me to that love,
As a diver, neath the water,
   Turns to watch the light above.
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