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The Mariner's Wife
Poem by Sophronia Knapp, "Thoughts of the Mariner's Wife," copied by Clara S. Foster (?) and addressed to Mrs. Higgins with note: "Please accept the following lines which I take the liberty to copy for you [&} oblige, your sincere friend, Clara S. Foster. First lines of poem: "The night is dark, the tempest raves, Sleep from my pillow flies..."
