“Strive to save one child from death.�
“Which one?� said the anxious daughter,
As she stood with bated breath.
Oh! the anguish of that mother;
What despair was in her eye!
All her little ones were precious;
Which one should she leave to die?
Then outspake the brother Bennie:
“I will take the little one.�
“No,� exclaimed the anxious mother;