After ten years, and all she's done.
'For I've had eight, and buried five,
And only three are left alive.
I've given them all we could afford,
I've taught them all to fear the Lord.
They've had the best we had to give,
The only three the Lord let live.
'For Minnie whom I loved the worst
Died mad in childbed with her first.
And John and Mary died of measles,