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Excerpt from Our Father's Care: A Ballad So young and so little, so slender and spare, What work can she do in this city of care! She wakes up to poverty, hardship, and pain, Poor child! Nestle down there, and slumber again. But no-she is rising - there wants nothing more, To rouse her from that humble bed on the oor She catches tight hold of a rickety chair, And stands for a moment unconsciously there; And then, as her little limbs shiver and shake, The light of her spirit begins to awake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.