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TWO WOMEN: THE MOTHER by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: THE MIDWIFE NEARLY DROWNED MY SON
Last Line: TO PROVE HER PRECIOUS BABE WILL LIVE.
THE midwife nearly drowned my son,
And beat him hard, before he'd give
That cry a mother longs to hear
To prove her precious babe will live.



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