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Accept oh Lord! a mother's prayer, / And shield my child from sickness here; / May Judah, ever constant prove / Herself deserving of thy love: / Sweet Robert in this vale of tears, / Survived with me three sickening years, / Before it was thy will to say, / He shall the debt of nature pay: / On lov'd Maria now I dwell, / My grief for her no pen can tell; / To spare a mother's pangs she flew, / To thee, ere I cou'd say adieu!
The babe was not a year with me, / Ere angels wafted her to thee: / For Charlotte's life, oh Lord! I pray, / And Robert's too both night and day; / Should it be thy will to call / Them from my sight, I pray, that all / My children may obtain a rest, / Were souls are number'd with the blest.
Henry a mother's last delight, / Improve O Lord, his health and sight, / That quick I find his strength increase, / My thanks to thee, shall never cease.