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Three young girls in friendship met	A
Mary Martha Margaret	B
Margaret was tall and fair	C
Martha shorter by a hair	C
If the first excelled in feature	D
The other's grace and ease were greater	D
Mary though to rival loth	E
In their best gifts equalled both	F
They a due proportion kept	G
Martha mourned if Margaret wept	G
Margaret joyed when any good	H
She of Martha understood	H
And in sympathy for either	D
Mary was outdone by neither	D
Thus far for a happy space	I
All three ran an even race	I
A most constant friendship proving	J
Equally beloved and loving	J
All their wishes joys the same	K
Sisters only not in name	K
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Fortune upon each one smiled	L
As upon a favourite child	L
Well to do and well to see	M
Were the parents of all three	M
Till on Martha's father crosses	N
Brought a flood of worldly losses	O
And his fortunes rich and great	P
Changed at once to low estate	P
Under which o'erwhelming blow	Q
Martha's mother was laid low	Q
She a hapless orphan left	R
Of maternal care bereft	R
Trouble following trouble fast	S
Lay in a sick bed at last	S
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In the depth of her affliction	T
Martha now received conviction	T
That a true and faithful friend	U
Can the surest comfort lend	U
Night and day with friendship tried	V
Ever constant by her side	V
Was her gentle Mary found	W
With a love that knew no bound	W
And the solace she imparted	X
Saved her dying broken hearted	Y
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In this scene of earthly things	Z
There's no good unmix d springs	Z
That which had to Martha proved	A2
A sweet consolation moved	A2
Different feelings of regret	A
In the mind of Margaret	B
She whose love was not less dear	B2
Nor affection less sincere	B2
To her friend was by occasion	T
Of more distant habitation	T
Fewer visits forced to pay her	D
When no other cause did stay her	D
And her Mary living nearer	D
Margaret began to fear her	D
Lest her visits day by day	C2
Martha's heart should steal away	C2
That whole heart she ill could spare her	D
Where till now she'd been a sharer	D
From this cause with grief she pined	D2
Till at length her health declined	D2
All her cheerful spirits flew	E2
Fast as Martha gathered new	E2
And her sickness wax d sore	F2
Just when Martha felt no more	F2
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Mary who had quick suspicion	T
Of her altered friend's condition	T
Seeing Martha's convalescence	G2
Less demanded now her presence	G2
With a goodness built on reason	T
Changed her measures with the season	T
Turned her steps from Martha's door	F2
Went where she was wanted more	F2
All her care and thoughts were set	A
Now to tend on Margaret	B
Mary living 'twixt the two	E2
From her home could oftener go	Q
Either of her friends to see	M
Than they could together be	M
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Truth explained is to suspicion	T
Evermore the best physician	T
Soon her visits had the effect	H2
All that Margaret did suspect	H2
From her fancy vanished clean	I2
She was soon what she had been	J2
And the colour she did lack	K2
To her faded cheek came back	K2
Wounds which love had made her feel	L2
Love alone had power to heal	L2
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Martha who the frequent visit	M2
Now had lost and sore did miss it	B
With impatience waxed cross	N2
Counted Margaret's gain her loss	N2
All that Mary did confer	D
On her friend thought due to her	D
In her girlish bosom rise	O2
Little foolish jealousies	P2
Which into such rancour wrought	Q2
She one day for Margaret sought	Q2
Finding her by chance alone	R2
She began with reasons shown	R2
To insinuate a fear	B2
Whether Mary was sincere	B2
Wished that Margaret would take heed	S2
Whence her actions did proceed	S2
For herself she'd long been minded	Y
Not with outsides to be blinded	X
All that pity and compassion	T
She believed was affectation	T
In her heart she doubted whether	D
Mary cared a pin for either	D
She could keep whole weeks at distance	G2
And not know of their existence	G2
While all things remained the same	K
But when some misfortune came	K
Then she made a great parade	T2
Of her sympathy and aid	T2
Not that she did really grieve	U2
It was only make believe	U2
And she cared for nothing so	Q
She might her fine feelings show	Q
And get credit on her part	V2
For a soft and tender heart	V2
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With such speeches smoothly made	T2
She found methods to persuade	T2
Margaret who being sore	F2
From the doubts she felt before	F2
Was prepared for mistrust	W2
To believe her reasons just	W2
Quite destroyed that comfort glad	X2
Which in Mary late she had	X2
Made her in experience' spite	Y2
Think her friend a hypocrite	B
And resolve with cruel scoff	Z2
To renounce and cast her off	Z2
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See how good turns are rewarded	X
She of both is now discarded	X
Who to both had been so late	P
Their support in low estate	P
All their comfort and their stay	C2
Now of both is cast away	C2
But the league her presence cherished	A3
Losing its best prop soon perished	A3
She that was a link to either	D
To keep them and it together	D
Being gone the two no wonder	D
That were left soon fell asunder	D
Some civilities were kept	G
But the heart of friendship slept	G
Love with hollow forms was fed	B3
But the life of love lay dead	B3
A cold intercourse they held	C3
After Mary was expelled	C3
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Two long years did intervene	I2
Since they'd either of them seen	I2
Or by letter any word	D3
Of their old companion heard	D3
When upon a day once walking	J
Of indifferent matters talking	J
They a female figure met	A
Martha said to Margaret	B
'That young maid in face does carry	M
A resemblance strong of Mary '	-
Margaret at nearer sight	Y2
Owned her observation right	Y2
But they did not far proceed	S2
Ere they knew 'twas she indeed	S2
She but ah how changed they view her	D
From that person which they knew her	D
Her fine face disease had scarred	E3
And its matchless beauty marred	E3
But enough was left to trace	I
Mary's sweetness Mary's grace	I
When her eye did first behold them	F3
How they blushed but when she told them	F3
How on a sick bed she lay	C2
Months while they had kept away	C2
And had no inquiries made	T2
If she were alive or dead	B3
How for want of a true friend	U
She was brought near to her end	U
And was like so to have died	V
With no friend at her bedside	V
How the constant irritation	T
Caused by fruitless expectation	T
Of their coming had extended	Y
The illness when she might have mended	X
Then O then how did reflection	T
Come on them with recollection	T
All that she had done for them	F3
How it did their fault condemn	F3
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But sweet Mary still the same	K
Kindly eased them of their shame	K
Spoke to them with accents bland	G3
Took them friendly by the hand	G3
Bound them both with promise fast	S
Not to speak of troubles past	S
Made them on the spot declare	C
A new league of friendship there	C
Which without a word of strife	H3
Lasted thenceforth long as life	H3
Martha now and Margaret	B
Strove who most should pay the debt	A
Which they owed her nor did vary	M
Ever after from their Mary	M