This page needs to be proofread.
To take them both, and let them live
With him and dear mamma.
Papa replies: "My dear, I think
We've boys enough already;
But we will take the little girl—
A play-mate for our Freddy."
O, must these little orphans part?
What will the poor boy do?
He hesitates a moment, then
He says, "we'll take the two!
"For 'twould be very hard, to part
The sister from her brother;
Poor little friendless ones, who now
So dearly love each other.
"Mamma will not consent, I'm sure,
These orphans thus to part,
There's room enough to hold them both,
In her warm, loving heart."
Fred runs at once to ask mamma,
If she will be a mother
To this dear little girl and boy—
The sister and the brother.
