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and to be loved again
 * Was all she ever asked or sought,

To know a mother's joy and pain
 * And be into life's fabric wrought;

Her simple faith was satisfied
 * With what she felt and understood,

To walk in sunny ways she tried,
 * Believing, practising the good.

To others' need and use she brought,
 * With constant and unconscious grace,

The best she had, her only thought
 * To be of service in her place.

The leisured, laughing, careless throng
 * By her unheeded went their way,

But in her eyes a silent song
 * Grew ever deeper day by day.