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Wide Green Prison

“I left the children in their sleepy tangle.... They both smelled so sweet, lying there in their night-warmth... I put my face to their necks and breathed the yeasty scent of them. God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother‘s heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.”