I have been looking for several decades for the words to one of those old Victorian era tearjerker ballads about a dying mother saying goodbye to her small children as they stood beside her bed. I believe "Be Kind To One Another", which was the opening line of the chorus, was also the song name.

One line that I vaguely recall went something like, "Her hand fell like a snowflake on her little boy's fair head"

Someone told me several years ago that they had seen the words to that song in a newspaper column (possibly Ann Landers or Dear Abby) somewhere back in the 1970's or early 1980's.

I will try to pick out the basic tune on a piano, write down the notes, and post them here as soon as I can.

Any help will be appreciated, as it was a favorite of my Great Grandmother, which she sang to me not long before she died in 1950. I was quite young then and her singing of this old ballad is my clearest memory of her.

Eu