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Reuben and Other Poems

by Robert Leighton

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“Good woman, I have pray'd for thee, and sure
Such loud and fervid pray'rs for one so poor
Never went up before. Peter and Paul,
The powerfullest among the older saints, and all
The weightiest of the new, have been implored
That thou to Christian comfort be restored.”