Although we are in deep distress;
Dear brother, pray now do not wrong
The widow and the fatherless."
Tears from their eyes in showers did flow,
For there they see they might not stay;
Their hearts were fill'd with grief and woe,
As from his house they took their way.
The mother was with grief opprest,
The children in a woful plight;
"We have no home nor place of rest,