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O, my son's my son till he gets him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all her life.

Dinah Craik

1881

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Mothers and sons Mothers and daughters

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1881

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Dinah Craik

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Craik, Dinah Mulock. "Magnus and Morna." Thirty Years: Being Poems, New and Old. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1881, sc. 2.

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