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A YOUNG MOTHER, by                    
First Line: I was polyxene in life
Last Line: I was aged eighteen and died.
Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The


I WAS Polyxene in life,
Archelaus' wedded wife,
Child whom Theodectes had
And Demarete the sad:
And I, though death removed my son
Before his twentieth day was run,
Am mother, birth pangs me entitle;
But my life was all too little,
Newly mother and newly bride
I was aged eighteen and died.





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