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see to write you one word
of how deeply I felt for you.
Of all those friends about
you who can orally express
to you their tenderness in
your bereavement, none I
feel confident grieve more
sincerely for you and with
you than I, that am away
from you, I, who would so
like to take your hands in
mine, and try to tell you
how unfeignedly I sorrow
with you. Tho' years may
pass before we meet, or it
may never be, always