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SPRING TO THE POORHOUSE by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN

First Line: ONCE WHEN SPRING CAME THESE EYES WERE LIFTED UP
Last Line: KNOW ONLY THAT SHE BRINGS HOT DAYS, AND FLIES.
Subject(s): KINDNESS; POORHOUSES; SPRING; YOUTH; WORKHOUSES;
Once when Spring came these eyes were lifted up
With youth to greet her youth, and promises
To greet the budding mystery she bore.

Now Spring trips in as radiant as before.
"I sing the happiness of life," she cries;
"Beauty and love and youth that never dies."

One sullen head is raised, then drops.
"She lies!"
And all the others, nodding in a row,
Know only that she brings hot days, and flies.



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