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They wander here and there in the absence of abode and their parents who, if living, would have indeed, taken care of them. Oh! Compassion! please provide those forlorn orphans with a place or residence and sweet words of consolation. Found for them orphanages and children's Aid Societies. If thou art not able, Oh! Compassion! to found such charitable institutions, give some help to those which are already existing. (1)
OLD PARENTS Oh! Compassion! there are some aged parents who have reached the age of sixty, seventy, cighty, or ninety and who have lost at this ripe old age, their beloved young sons. Oh! Compassion! Can't you hear them lamenting over the losses of their dear sons, sitting in a helpless mood in the solitary corner of their humble cottages ? As if this was less, they have also lost along with the dead sons, their sources of income, too, and means of maintenance. They who are thus afflicted with miseries and hunger, do cry for help. Don't you hear their heart-rending cries for help. Oh! Compassion ! come and dwell in my heart so that I can really and readily help them. (2)
WIDOWS Oh! Compassion ! there are surely to be found in this world some such young girls as have lost their husbands soon after their marriages and have thus been rendered helpless. They have become the objects of dislike to their fathers-in
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