Desolate—Life is so dreary and desolate— Women and men in t… - Alice Cary

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Desolate—Life is so dreary and desolate—
Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle,
Yet with itself every soul standeth single,
Deep out of sympathy moaning its moan—
Holding and having its brief exultation—
Making its lonesome and low lamentation—
Fighting its terrible conflicts alone.

Alice Cary

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About Alice Cary

Alice Cary (April 26, 1820 – February 12, 1871) was a poet born near Cincinnati, Ohio. She and her younger sister, Phoebe Cary, co-published poems in 1849. They lived on the Clovernook farm in North College Hill, Ohio.

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Alternative Names: Alice Patty Lee Cary

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We serve Him most who take the most of His exhaustless love.

My soul is full of whispered song,— My blindness is my sight;
The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light.

How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.

Desolate—Life is so dreary and desolate— Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single, Deep out of sympathy… - Alice Cary

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