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O, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?
O, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrows, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?
Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
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- Robert Southey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1808 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1774–1843)
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 381 · printed citation: Southey · subject: MEETING
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