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Old 09-24-2013, 07:17 AM
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Originally Posted by Rex E. View Post
It's "The Cry Of The Children" and here it is

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172981
Guess my memory is not what it used to be. She wrote that as a cry against child labour but it can apply to other abuses against children. The last lines may well be prophetic.

My Dad was working in the woolen mills at twelve. Once in Canada he finished his education by correspondence, ended as a statiistician - only reason I know how to spell it.
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