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Poverty
by:
Alcaeus
(7th-6th century B.C.)
translated by James S. Easby-Smith
A grievous weight, too heavy to endure,
Bitter, and full of woe,
Is
Poverty
, who, with her sister, Want,
Cripples the people so.
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