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Compare this Invocation with "Frank Dutton"-- particularly stanzas first and seventeenth--and I think the reader will feel convinced that he who wrote the one had read the other: I. "Frank Dutton was as fine a lad As ever you wish to see, And he was drowned in Pine Island Lake On earth no more will he be, His age was near fifteen years, And he was a motherless boy, He was living with his grandmother When he was drowned, poor boy." XVII. "He was drowned on Tuesday afternoon, On Sunday he was found, And the tidings of that drowned boy Was heard for miles around. His form was laid by his mother's side, Beneath the cold, cold ground, His friends for him will drop a tear When they view his little mound." The Sentimental Song Book.
By Mrs.Julia Moore, p.
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