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NUMBER:18444
QUOTATION:The Queen has lands and gold, Mother
The Queen has lands and gold,
While you are forced to your empty breast
A skeleton Babe to hold
ATTRIBUTION:Amelia Edwards (1831–1892), British writer, Egyptologist. Give Me Three Grains of Corn, Mother, st. 4.
 
 
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