“Kiss me, Mother, ere I die;

Kiss me⁠—kiss me, Mother, ah!

Kiss, ah! kiss me e⁠—ere I⁠—

Kiss me, Mother, ere I d⁠—d⁠—die!”

“Kiss me, Mother, ere I die; Kiss me⁠—kiss me, Mother, ah! Kiss, ah! kiss me e⁠—ere I⁠— Kiss me, Mother, ere I d⁠—d⁠—die!”

She wrote the words to them herself, and other poems. In lighter moments she wrote waltzes, one of which, the “Kensington Coil,” was almost national to Kensington, having a sweet dip in it. Thus: