air-mothers

Updated: July 28, 2025

And the air-mothers hear their prayers, and do their bidding: but faintly; for they themselves are tired and sad. Tired and sad are the air-mothers, and their gardens rent and wan. Look at them as they stream over the black forest, before the dim south-western sun; long lines and wreaths of melancholy grey, stained with dull yellow or dead dun.

Charles Kingsley - Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc