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“Ten o'clock!”—it strikes the hour—On her knees the Lady bows;
She believes her prayers have power
To keep the foul fiend from the house;
So when young her mother told her,—
Few there be can change when older
Creeds received in childhood's days—
The girl believed—the woman prays.
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