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Maternity

One wept whose only child was dead,    New-born, ten years ago. “Weep not; he is in bliss,” they said.    She answered, “Even so,

“Ten years ago was born in pain    A child, not now forlorn. But oh, ten years ago, in vain,    A mother, a mother was born.”

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