V. AN AUNT AND AN UNCLE.

I have but an aunt and an uncle

For kinsfolk on the earth,

And one has passed me unnoticed

And hated me from my birth;

But the first has reared me and taught me,

Whatever I have of worth.

This is my uncle by marriage,

For his wife my aunt had died,

And left him all her possessions,

With much that was mine beside—

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'Tis said that he hated her brother,

As much as he loved the bride.

That brother, my father, forgave him,

As his last hour ran its sand,

And begged in return his forgiveness,

As he placed in his sister's hand

The bonds, that when I was twenty,

Should be at my command.

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