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Page 91 - That thou wilt hail my second birth, When death shall reunite us, Where worlds no more can sever Parent and child for ever. THE WIDOW AND THE FATHERLESS WELL, thou art gone, and I am left : But oh ! how cold and dark to me This world, of every charm bereft, Where all was beautiful with thee ! Though I have seen thy form depart For ever from my widow'd eye, I hold thee in mine inmost heart ; There, there at least, thou canst not die. Farewell on earth : Heaven claim'd its own , Yet, when from me thy...
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| Title | Lorette: The History of Louise, Daughter of a Canadian Nun; Exhibiting the Interior of Female Convents Archives of Sexuality & Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century |
| Author | George Bourne |
| Publisher | Wm. A. Mercein, 1833 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | Aug 25, 2006 |
| Length | 244 pages |
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