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POEMS.
Sad was her heart, but Light will not forget
Her sisterly love and her heartfelt regret.
Her sisterly love and her heartfelt regret.
But Darkness declined to settle or pay
The expenses incurred while she was away.
The expenses incurred while she was away.
Sad was the blow, and crushing the blight,
So to Darkness I now will wish a good night.
So to Darkness I now will wish a good night.
MY BIRTHDAY.
I've lived to see another birthday,
And would here on these pages say
A few kind words in a pleasant way
From mother.
That you'll not forget, as years roll round,
When hope and love with you abound,
While sleeping 'neath a grassy mound,
Thy mother.
When hope and love with you abound,
While sleeping 'neath a grassy mound,
Thy mother.
In one little corner of thy heart
Let memory ever hold a part
Of kind and gentle, tender thought
Of mother.
Let memory ever hold a part
Of kind and gentle, tender thought
Of mother.
