I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends! (Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye)

I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye

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