[Picture: The funeral]
The kind and loving mother of those two children is dead, and going to
the grave! It is too late now to be dutiful to her, for she cannot open
her eyes to look at you, they are shut for ever; it is too late to do as
she bid you, for her lips are closed, and she cannot speak: it is too
late to wait upon her now, for she no longer requires your assistance!
O, little girl and little boy, if your dear mamma be still alive, be very
kind and dutiful to her before this sorrowful day comes; or else it will
be too late to do any thing for _her_, but cry very bitterly over her
grave.