Mary Cassatt's mother, Frederic Chopin - Mazurka in C Sharp Minor, Op. 6, No. 2, William Wordsworth - To a Child Written in Her Album

Last week I featured a picture of Mary Cassatt's brother and nephew.  This week's paintings are of her mother.  As I said last week, Mary Cassatt was very devoted to her family.  She paints her mother as a strong figure, but you feel the admiration Mary had for her.  

A second Mazurka by Frederic Chopin explained and played here by Marjan Kiepura:  Mazurka in C Sharp Minor, Op. 6, No. 2.

A very short but meaningful poem by William Wordsworth - 

To a Child Written in Her Album

Small service is true service while it lasts:
Of humblest Friends, bright Creature! scorn not one:
The Daisy, by the shadow that it casts,
Protects the lingering dew-drop from the Sun.