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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FEVER, by ALFRED HENSCHKE Poet's Biography
First Line: Often the road-menders gather
Last Line: Where a tramway and a garbage-cart and a hearse rumble and beat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
First Line: Often the road-menders gather
Last Line: Where a tramway and a garbage-cart and a hearse rumble and beat.
Alternate Author Name(s): Klabund
Often the road-menders gather
And break stone for the road-bed.
They put up a ladder
And hammer the stones into my head.
And my head becomes as hard as a street,
Where a tramway and a garbage-cart and a hearse rumble and beat.
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