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My Life, a Poem

Improvement Era, vol. 2, no. 11, September 1899, p. 814

Marshall, Mariah A.

MY LIFE.

I kept my money to insure me ease* I saved my strength for length of days; I shunned the sad

To keep me glad And won some heartless praise.

My brother perished for my surplus bread; My feeble sister fainted by the way; As proud I strode Along the road, "I'm safe," I used to say.

Money has not secured me ease; There is no joy in length of days. . ^^ Would I had fed, Would I had led The weak in their hard ways! Maria A. Marshall.