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Sister Jane

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WHEN Sister Jane, who had produced a child,     In prayer and penance all her hours beguiled     Her sister-nuns around the lattice pressed;     On which the abbess thus her flock addressed:     Live like our sister Jane, and bid adieu     To worldly cares: - have better things in view.     YES, they replied, we sage like her shall be,     When we with love have equally been free.

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