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"One lamp — thy mother’s love — amid the stars Shall lift its pure flame changeless, and before The throne of God, burn through eternity - Holy — as it was lit and lent thee here."
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Source: Nathaniel Parker WILLIS (1848). “Poems of early and after years ... Illustrated by E. Leutze”, p.73
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