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    "title": "Sampler",
    "date": "1823",
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            "inscription": "above: \"Teach me to sooth the helpless orphan's grief,/ with timely aid the widow's woes assuage./ To Misry's moving cries to yield relief,/ And be the sure resource of drooping age./ So when the genial spring of life shall fade,/ And sinking nature owns the dread decay,/ Some soul congenial then may lend its aid,/ And gild the close of life's eventful day.\"; below: \"Ann Madden  Aged 12 Years/ 1823.\""
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