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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427854" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Great Chicago Fire</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The great Chicago Fire, friends,<br>Will never be forgot;<br>In the history of Chicago<br>It will remain a darken spot.<br>It was a dreadful horrid sight<br>To see that City in flames;<br>But no human aid could save it,<br>For all skill was tried in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the year of 1871,<br>In October on the 8th,<br>The people in that City, then<br>Was full of life, and great.<br>Less than four days it lay in ruins,<br>That garden City, so great<br>Lay smouldering in ashes,<br>In a sad and pitiful state.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a sad, sad scene indeed,<br>To see the fire arise,<br>And hear the crackling of the flames<br>As it almost reached the skies,<br>And sadder still, to hear the moans,<br>Of people in the flames<br>Cry for help, and none could get,<br>Ah, die where they remained.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To see the people run for life;<br>Up and down the blazing streets,<br>To find then, their escape cut off<br>By the fiery flaming sheets,<br>And others hunting for some friend<br>That perhaps they never found,<br>Such weeping, wailing, never was known,<br>For a thousands miles around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some people were very wealthy<br>On the morning of the 10th.<br>But at the close of the evening,<br>Was poor, but felt content,<br>Glad to escape from harm with life<br>With friends they loved so well,<br>Some will try to gain more wisdom,<br>By the sad sight they beheld.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Five thousand people were homeless,<br>Sad wanderers in the streets,<br>With no shelter to cover them,<br>And no food had they to eat.<br>They wandered down by the lake side,<br>Lay down on the cold damp ground,<br>So tired and weary and homeless,<br>So the rich, the poor, was found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mothers with dear little infants,<br>Some clinging to the breast.<br>People of every description<br>All laid down there to rest,<br>With the sky as their covering,<br>Ah, pillows they had none.<br>Sad, oh sad, it must have been,<br>For those poor homeless ones.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Neighboring Cities sent comfort,<br>To the poor lone helpless ones,<br>And God will not forget them<br>In all the years to come.<br>Now the City of Chicago<br>Is built up anew once more,<br>And may it never be visited<br>With such a great fire no more.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Julia+A+Moore">Julia A Moore</a><div class=q>
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Will never be forgot;
In the history of Chicago
It will remain a darken spot.
It was a dreadful horrid sight
To see that City in flames;
But no human aid could save it,
For all skill was tried in vain.

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