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Written for Mrs Stanford

In - memory of Her Dearest
one who has but recently passed
away.

Sometimes when you are gayest
a mesage [sic] Drear will come
that will change our mirth two [sic]
moping that will fill our
hearts with gloom.

But the saddest word that
reached us for many a
long long day was the
one that came two [sic] tell us
Mr Leland had passed
away.