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blessing on those
 * Who remember the poor!

If I had been born
 * In the Five Points, I'm sure

I should have been grateful
 * For work and for food;

And this House of Industry
 * Must do them great good.

Our hearts should be filled
 * With pity for those

Who suffer in winter
 * For want of warm clothes.

Who suffer with hunger
 * For want of nice bread,

While we from God's bounty
 * Are constantly fed.

Then let us remember
 * How much they endure,—

Those dear little children
 * So wretched and poor,