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Title: Greifswald, 1909 Author: Herbert Edward Palmer [More Titles by Palmer] I was sick with pain, once, She was withered, and wretched, and gray, She had lived fierce days in that town They had slandered her, tricked her; robbed her One went blind; another stark mad,-- Life ran high there; men nourished their hates And I lay in her bare, clean room "O mother," I cried--and she leaned to me-- And she placed her hand in my hand; She was wasted, arid as one [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |