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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.”
Provenance
- Source:
- The Country Justice. Part i.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 3507a4e603c9b31444efebfd423bc648986ae169ed0e489994f28b242702e078
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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