Bess asks the church elders for permission to marry Jan.
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Ma Zegner sleepwalks to the graves of her daughters and sings about what ties her to the land.
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Ma Zegner, after doing all that’s required of her as stipulated by the Homestead Act, confronts the deaths of her children and rails against fate.
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A young mother, reeling from the fact that she may have lost her baby's father to the violence of war, sings a lament to her daughter.