Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 434, page 59 by Various Authors
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g had to the seasons and hour of the day, is it found to increase or diminish? From what properties can it be inferred that ozone is favourable or hurtful to the animal economy, and what has experiment made known in this respect, particularly in the appearance or disappearance of epidemic diseases?'
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ON OVERHEARING A LITTLE CHILD (A VISITOR) SAYING 'MAMMA' IN THE NEXT ROOM.
Hark! through the wall it comes! and to my ear It sounds the sweetest of all silvery tones, So soft, yet syllabled distinct and clear, 'Mamma!'--and happy she the name who owns! Nor would I all suppress this starting tear, Which blinds me, while, that infant's voice I hear! Say it again, fair child; I like it well, Although I sit alone, within my room, Like hermit-hearted man within his cell. It wakens Reminiscence, like a bell; And summons up a vanished Form most dear, Which, long years since, I laid within the tomb! Strange, that a simple sound should reach so deep, And flood my heart with thoughts, and make me weep!
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