Oh, if you could understand the…

Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother's heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace - the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child - you would understand what I feel for you.

Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother’s heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace – the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child – you would understand what I feel for you.