A Voice of the Old West
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Mother Love
What a very strange thing is a Mother’s heart,
There is always room for one more.
She may think when the first baby comes, t’is filled
But sometimes it will hold a half score.
I remember husband dear, when I met you first
The love that was in my heart
Was yours alone, and it seemed to me then
No other could share a part.
But, bye and bye, when Eddie came,
I found I had love to spare
For the baby boy God sent to us
And I thought him, Oh so fair.
But now my heart was full indeed,
I thought my love complete
As I listened to my husband’s voice
And the patter of baby feet.
Surely now my heart is full
It can find no room for another
But, alas, I find I’m mistaken again
When God sends us a baby brother.
As I hold this second pledge of love
Close to this Mother’s heart
I think, were God to call one back
From which one could I part?
And after a while came baby
With your eyes of deep dark blue
And a queen of all the baby girls
Was she to me and you.
And last, but not least, came Jimmie
The boy that I named for you
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About the Book
An extraordinary picture of life in the Old West of 19th century Colorado mining towns as seen through the poetry of a talented woman. The poems touch universal human concerns: The laments of lost youth and of getting older, poems of love and of grief, of nature and of maternal experiences. In addition, there are stories of the times: the suicide of a local prostitute, a “Hiawatha”-like Indian story, a humorous story of a cowboy whose demise resulted because “he ate his pie with a fork” and mining stories from Leadville,
About the Author
James E. McGee is the first-born great-grandson of Annie Beatrice McGee.
He is a Viet Nam-era veteran of U.S. Army Intelligence. He was an enlisted man who received a direct Field Commission and served as First Lieutenant. Subsequently, he became a U.S. Foreign Service Officer.
Moving to the corporate world, he was the youngest General Manager in a Fortune 60 before becoming President of a company. Later, he patented a product and started his own company.
He graduated from UCLA and the Harvard University Graduate School of Business. He is the author of A Journey Through Grief: Notes From A Foreign Country, 1st Books Library, 2003 (ISBN: 1-4140-0283-1).