A Mother Serves Her Sugar

Music: Lovely Molly
Sequenced by
Barry Taylor

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A mother serves her sugar with
A bit of peppermint
To clarify the passages
That carry what she meant

When she first set to bear a soul
Quite separate from her own,
Whom she would cherish, yet must teach
To live and die alone.

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