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 Our children could not keep their seats, But every sportive girl and boy, With hearts as cheerful as the day, Did skip about the deck for joy;

Except one pretty little girl, Who sat alone with downcast eye, And now and then I saw a tear, And thought I heard a broken sigh.

I wondered much that one so young, Should seem so pensively inclined, And asked her mother what it meant; "Alas!" said she, "the child is blind.

"One day, I never shall forget, She and her brother were at play; Something she said offended him,  And so they had a childish fray.

"She turned her head and gave a look, 'T was half a smile and half grimace; His temper rose,—he caught a fork  And threw it in his sister's face.

"It struck her eye, the blood gushed out, He screamed, and turn'd as pale as death; Oh, never shall my memory lose  That dreadful scene while I have breath.