F. G. C.

Ottery St. Mary.

_Passage in Blackwood._--

"I sate, and wept in secret the tears that men have ever given _to the

memory of those that died before the dawn_, and by the treachery of

earth our mother."--_Blackwood's Magazine_, December, 1849, p. 72., 3rd

line, second column.

Will some of your readers give information respecting the above words in

Italic?

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