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“Oh, 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 sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?”
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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