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WIVES' LAMENT / (_November_ 2, 1899)
I. O IT was sad enough, weak enough, mad enough- / Light in their loving as soldiers can be- / First to risk choosing them, leave alone losing them / Now, in far battle, beyond the South Sea! . . .