"No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us;
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us."
"Yes, yes," replied the old woman; "no eye to watch, indeed. He may be
in sickness and in sorrow; he may be wounded, or dying of a fever; and
there's no mother's eye to watch over him. As to all the earth being
forgot, I won't believe that Tom has forgotten his mother."