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Show NOT AS EARTHLY PARENTS, j 'Oh, mamma, do! pi oils e, mamma, do! il am ma, please; oh, in am ma, pluaao!" "Lizzie, no! you must uut tuiaw ! Or mamma'll ncror jjive it you." Non mamma's stretched on bed of paiu; LiUlo Lizi;, ajed sevon, Little hands up-claipcd to heaven, Frys: "Ged make mamma wullaain." Night after night does up the prayer; IJay aftor day comes no reply To the piteous, plead i or cry, Till diiappoiutuieiit brings despa'r. Lizzie now in grieved surprise, Tearlul eyed, with twisting hands, By sick mamma's budjido stands, And in sob-broken accents crivs: "You told ma not to tease, you know; Mamma, God don't seem to care. And, I'm vfruid, won't grant ray prayer; Perhaps iu 'eaugo I tease Him bo." "No, Lizzie, no; still patient pray; - Not as earthly parents, Hu bids us auk continually, Nor puU HU children's prayera away." |