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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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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
• Abraham Lincoln


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