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To My Mother - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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To My Mother

By Robert Louis StevensonSource: Robert Louis Stevenson - PoetryDB (Public Domain)23 words

You too, my mother, read my rhymes

For love of unforgotten times,

And you may chance to hear once more

The little feet along the floor.

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