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Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Babe

Bent o’er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew;
The big drops mingling with the milk he drew,
Gave the sad presage of his future years,
The child of misery, baptiz’d in tears!
Langhorne.—The Country Justice.