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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