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RAGGED SCHOOLS OF LONDON.
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XXXI.

But a place in Ragged Schools,

Where the outcasts may to-morrow
Learn by gentle words and rules
Just the uses of their sorrow.

XXXII.

O my sisters! children small,

Blue-eyed, wailing through the city,
Our own babes cry in them all,
Let us take them into pity.

March 20th, 1854.