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The dead child lay in the shroud, / And the widow watched beside; / And her mother slept, and the Channel swept / The gale in the teeth of the tide.
But the mother laughed at all. / "I have lost my man in the sea, / And the child is dead. Be still," she said, / "What more can ye do to me?"