Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1890 — Bereaved. [ARTICLE]

Bereaved.

Let me come in where you sit weeping—aye. Let me, who have not any child to die, . • Weep with you for the little one whose love I have known nothing of. 'Hie little arms that slowly, slowly loosed Their pressure round your neck—the hands you used To kiss. Such arms, such hands I never knew May I not weep with you? Fain would Ihe of service—say something Between the tears that wou’d be comforting. But ah! so sadder than yourselves am I, Who have no child to die. --James Whitcomb Riley in November Century