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...fifty years afterwards, on the receipt of her portrait from a relation in Norfolk : — " My mother 1 when I learned that thou wast dead, Say, wast thou...even then, life's journey just begun ? Perhaps thou gav'st me, though unseen, a kiss : Perhaps a tear, if souls can weep in bliss ! I heard the bell tolled...

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