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Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps; She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.
Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps; Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps; She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies, Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 54 · quotation 10 · Campbell · Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 225.
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