Relationships
X.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II.
Relationships
I'm going down the garden, mother.' 'Laura!' 'I've dried my tears.'
'O how will this end!' 'I know not the end, I can but begin.'
'But what will you say?' 'Not "welcome, father," though long were those
years,
But I'll say to him, "O my poor father, we wait you, come in."
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