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A heaven to n > e it would have been , Had he remained with me ;
Oh , bring my William back again , Thou wild heart-breaking sea ! He should have stayed , to overthrow The men who do us wrong : ; When such a » he fly far away .
They make oppressors 9 trong : But oh , though worlds of cruel waves Between our torn hearts rise , My William , thou art present still Before my weeping eyes ! Why hast thou sought a foreign land ,
And left me here to weep ? Man ! man ! thou shouldst have sent our foes Beyond that dismal deep ! * For when I die—who then will toil , My mother ' s life to gave ? What home will then remain for her ?—A trampled Workhouse-grave ,
No . XII . He did not come , but letters came , And money came iu one ; But he would quickly come , they said" When I , " she sigh'd , " am gone !" Thenceforth , she almost welcom e d death , With feelings high and brave , Because she knew that her truelove Would weep upon her grave .
' * No parish-hireling , " oft she said , " My wasted form will bear ; The honest labour of my hands Hath purchns ' d earth and prnyei
Nor childless will my mother be , *' The dying sufferer smi I'd , 4 < Thou wilt not want ! for William ' s heurt Is wedded to thy child ! "
But Death seemed lotbe to strike a form 80 beautiful and youug , And o ' er her long , with lifted dart , The pensive tyrant hung ;
• And when woman is properly educated , she will teach us this lesson , and others .
Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/23/