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Title: The Soldier's Wife Author: Robert Southey [More Titles by Southey] DACTYLICS. Weary way-wanderer languid and sick at heart Sorely thy little one drags by thee bare-footed, [1] Woe-begone mother, half anger, half agony, Thy husband will never return from the war again,
[Footnote 1: This stanza was supplied by S.T. COLERIDGE.] [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |