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Our children could not keep their seats,
  But every sportive girl and boy,
With hearts as cheerful as the day,
  Did skip about the deck for joy;

Except one pretty little girl,
  Who sat alone with downcast eye,
And now and then I saw a tear,
  And thought I heard a broken sigh.

I wondered much that one so young,
  Should seem so pensively inclined,
And asked her mother what it meant;
  "Alas!" said she, "the child is blind.

"One day, I never shall forget,
  She and her brother were at play;
Something she said offended him,
  And so they had a childish fray.

"She turned her head and gave a look,
  'T was half a smile and half grimace;
His temper rose,—he caught a fork
  And threw it in his sister's face.

"It struck her eye, the blood gushed out,
  He screamed, and turn'd as pale as death;
Oh, never shall my memory lose
  That dreadful scene while I have breath.