• Let me come in where you sit weeping,—ay,
    Let me, who have not any child to die,
    Weep with you for the little one whose love
            I have known nothing of.

    The little arms that slowly, slowly loosed
    Their pressure round your neck; the hands you used
    To kiss.—Such arms—such hands I never knew.
            May I not weep with you?

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