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Metrical tales, and other poems; - Electric Scotland

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DEATH IN THE SLUMS. 283<br />

Life wants Lis truckle bed,<br />

Fights for his room.<br />

Is there a life on high,<br />

Any home there,<br />

Whither a wretch can fly<br />

Meagre <strong>and</strong> bare<br />

;<br />

Baffled in fortune's strife,<br />

Broken by care,<br />

Weary of worldlyvlife,<br />

Wanted no where ?<br />

By the horrors of the place.<br />

By the children stunted,<br />

By that woman's haggard face.<br />

By her wild words haunted,<br />

Turned from that wretched door,<br />

Prom the homes of sadness.<br />

Musing on our hapless poor.<br />

Hungered into madness.

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