GOD gave to me a child in part,

Yet wholly gave the father’s heart:

Child of my soul, O whither now,

Unborn, unmothered, goest thou?

You came, you went, and no man wist;

Hapless, my child, no breast you kist;

On no dear knees, a privileged babbler, clomb,

Nor knew the kindly feel of home.

M............