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The courage that my mother had Went with her, and is with her still: Rock from New England quarried; Now granite in a granite hill. The golden brooch my mother wore She left behind for me to wear; I have no thing I treasure more: Yet, it is something I could spare. Oh, if instead she'd left to me The thing she took into the grave! - That courage like a rock, which she Has no more need of, and I have. —“The Courage That My Mother Had,” Edna St. Vincent Milla Select the answer that best completes each important detail. The had courage like a rock. The daughter treasured her mother's more than anything.

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the central idea of the poem is the mothers courage. the mother showed great courage as stated in the 11th line "that courage like a rock"

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