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On which her pale face leant; the Bible lay Open beside, but blistered were the leaves With two or three large tears, which had dried in. Oh, happy she had not survived her child! And many pitied her, for she had spent Her little savings, and she had no friends; But strangers made her grave in that church-yard, And where her sailor slept, there slept his mother!