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"Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Perhaps that parent mourned her soldier slain; Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew, The big drops mingling with the milk he drew Gave the sad presage of his future years,-- The child of misery, baptized in tears."
John Langhorne / The Country Justice. Part i.
The Country Justice. Part i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain