Crossword-Solution: SOOTHER 7 letters, 13 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Sow fallow land when the soil is still getting light: fallow land is a defender from harm and a soother of children.

Water, sweetest soother to kiss a wound and cool, Sweetest and divinest, the sky-born brook, Chuckled, with a whimper, and made a mirror-pool Round the guest we welcomed, the strange hand shook.

The present, with all its sorrows, its remorse and its shame, had sunk away; only the past remained--the unforgettable past, when Marguerite was “little mother”--the soother, the comforter, the healer, the ever-willing receptacle wherein he had been wont to pour the burden of his childish griefs, of his boyish escapades.

When this was read, then said this olde man, “Believ’st thou this or no? say yea or nay.” “I believe all this,” quoth Valerian, “For soother* thing than this, I dare well say, *truer Under the Heaven no wight thinke may.” Then vanish’d the old man, he wist not where And Pope Urban him christened right there.

They who have known these feelings (and who is there so happy as not to have known some of them?) will understand why Alfieri became powerless, and Froissart dull; and why even needle-work, the most effectual sedative, that grand soother and composer of woman's distress, fails to comfort me to-day.