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Studies in verse (1865)

Warren, John Byrne Leicester (1835-1895)

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THE SEAMAN'S CHILDREN.

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“There is a sickly thought which comes and goes:
I have forgot its meaning, but I know,
When I have seen it standing at my bed,
How greatly best it is that I should die;
For something has been lost upon the earth
Which, I suppose, I could breathe without.”