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Original Poems and Translations
By Francis Fawkes
Fawkes, Francis (1720-1777)
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Original Poems and Translations
MATERNAL AFFECTION.
Why
for her children should the wife express
More fond affection, and the husband less?
The reason, if I rightly judge, is this,
She knows them her's, and he but thinks them his.
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Original Poems and Translations