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A FATHER'S PITY.

   Reproachful calling on the parents' care
   To ease its pangs; fain would those hearts that burst
   Their lamblike nursling's mortal misery bear:
   So doth He pity us who is our trust,
The Former of our frame, remembering we are dust.