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FATHER.
10 Cease, cease, my foolish
babe,
What you are saying is sorrowful to me — much it dis- pleases me;
Behold with the rest, again I say — behold not banners and pennants aloft;
But the well-prepared pavements behold — and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
What you are saying is sorrowful to me — much it dis- pleases me;
Behold with the rest, again I say — behold not banners and pennants aloft;
But the well-prepared pavements behold — and mark the solid-wall'd houses.
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