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Title: A Little Book of Western Verse
Author: Eugene Field
Release Date: January, 2006 [EBook #9606]
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A LITTLE BOOK OF WESTERN VERSE
by Eugene Field
1889
TO MARY FIELD FRENCH
A dying mother gave to you
Her child a many years ago;
How in your gracious love he grew,
You know, dear, patient heart, you know.
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