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Austin Dobson 18401921The Cradle
Dobson-AH
How lovingly had drest
With all her would-be-mother’s wit
That little rosy nest!
It sometimes seemed, she said,
There lay beneath its coverlet
A little sleeping head.
Ere bleak December fled;
That rosy nest he never prest…
Her coffin was his bed.