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GOD gave to me a child in part, / Yet wholly gave the father's heart: / Child of my soul, O whither now, / Unborn, unmothered, goest thou?
You came, you went, and no man wist; / Hapless, my child, no breast you kist; / On no dear knees, a privileged babbler, clomb, / Nor knew the kindly feel of home.
My voice may reach you, O my dear- / A father's voice perhaps the child may hear; / And, pitying, you may turn your view / On that poor father whom you never knew.
Alas! alone he sits, who then, / Immortal among mortal men, / Sat hand in hand with love, and all day through / With your dear mother wondered over you.