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REMINISCENCES OF A WORKMAN’S LIFE

DEDICATION

1

Fondly on your loving faces,

Each tender thought I trace,

Fondly with a father’s pride

Recall your earlier days

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When erst I left my loved home,

And went beyond the sea,

I left you, smiling infants still,

A mother’s joy and stay.

3

And after years when I came home,

You smiled on me the same,

Oh! can you think how fond, yet shy,

Sweet prattling things, you came.

4

And years have gone, and I have watched,

The forming of your mind,

Each budding thought, each growing hope,

Each feeling, true and kind.

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