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Wisdom And A Mother

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Why, mourner, do you mourn, nor see     The heavenly Earth's felicity?     I mourn for him, my Dearest, lost,     Who lived a frail life at my cost.     A grief like yours how many have known!     Were that a balm to ease my own!     Or rather might I not accuse     The Hand that does not even choose,     But, taking blindly, took my best,     And as indifferently takes the rest ...     Like mine? Is there denied to me     Even Sorrow's singularity?

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