Father And Mother Tongue by Samuel Lover <https://www.poetrynook.com/poet/samuel-lover> Our Father Land! and wouldst thou know Why we should call it Father Land? It is that Adam here below Was made of earth by Nature's hand; And he our father, made of earth, Hath peopled earth on every hand; And we, in memory of his birth, Do call our country Father Land.
At first, in Eden's bowers, they say, No sound of speech had Adam caught, But whistled like a bird all day,-- And maybe 'twas for want of thought: But Nature, with resistless laws, Made Adam soon surpass the birds; She gave him lovely Eve because If he'd a wife they must have words. And so the native land, I hold, By male descent is proudly mine; The language, as the tale hath told, Was given in the female line. And thus we see on either hand We name our blessings whence they've sprung; We call our country Father Land, We call our language Mother Tongue. K R IRS 131223 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: 'gopala krishnan' via Thatha_Patty <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2023 at 12:51 Subject: Re: [KeralaIyers] Fwd - Tongue in cheek reply To: 'N Sekar' via KeralaIyers <[email protected]>, Patty Thatha < [email protected]>, Iyer <[email protected]> Dear Mr Sekar, I enjoyed the joke very much. However the picture is not matching with the joke. The age of child, appearance of the father does not match to the joke in my opinion. Opinions may vary. Gopalakrishnan On Wednesday, 13 December, 2023 at 10:31:13 am IST, 'N Sekar' via KeralaIyers <[email protected]> wrote: Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android <https://mail.onelink.me/107872968?pid=nativeplacement&c=Global_Acquisition_YMktg_315_Internal_EmailSignature&af_sub1=Acquisition&af_sub2=Global_YMktg&af_sub3=&af_sub4=100000604&af_sub5=EmailSignature__Static_> -- On Facebook, please join https://www.facebook.com/groups/keralaiyerstrust We are now on Telegram Mobile App also, please join Pattars/Kerala Iyers Discussions: https://t.me/PattarsGroup Kerala Iyers Trust Decisions only posts : https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrust Kerala Iyers Trust Group for Discussions: https://t.me/KeralaIyersTrustGroup --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "KeralaIyers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/104893293.590612.1702443658241%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/keralaiyers/104893293.590612.1702443658241%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1649428562.2251882.1702452053913%40mail.yahoo.com <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/1649428562.2251882.1702452053913%40mail.yahoo.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CAL5XZopgv_Z6X6_A7YVxXSD6SfUgGUbim2HmwVzN2cG%2Bkq7pFw%40mail.gmail.com.
