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Orphans

by Gerald Massey

Gerald Massey

WHO would not wish the Dead were near,
If we can dry the mourners' tear?
Who would not pray the Dead may sleep,
When starving Orphans wake to weep?




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All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


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