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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=427856" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Southern Scourge</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The yellow fever was raging,<br>Down in the sunny south;<br>And in many of the cities,<br>There was a death at every house.<br>This plague a war was raging,<br>With the lives of people there;<br>The young and old were stricken down,<br>And lay in sad despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No comfort, all was misery<br>In many a southern home.<br>Where once was peace and quietness,<br>Now in distress are thrown;<br>For death the house has visited,<br>And caused the inmates to mourn<br>The loss of some dear loving friend,<br>That on earth no more shall roam.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Some people in delirium,<br>Have wandered from their home;<br>Have wandered to a vacant house,<br>And there have died alone,<br>With no kind friend to care for them,<br>Or close their dying eyes.<br>Oh God! in horrid misery<br>Hundreds of people died.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were many whole families<br>Taken down sick in a day;<br>With no one to care for them,<br>In death they passed away.<br>Their spirits arose to God above,<br>Where sickness is no more;<br>Where peace and comfort ever reign,<br>On Heaven's blissful shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is many a southern city<br>To-day is filled with woe,<br>And many of the inhabitants<br>Have wandered to and fro<br>To nurse the sick and dying -- <br>The dead for the grave prepare.<br>They tried to do their duty,<br>With hearts filled with despair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Howard Association<br>Have been doing all they can,<br>To keep the &quot;plague&quot; from raging<br>Throughout the southern land;<br>They nursed the sick, they fed the poor,<br>They work both night and day,<br>This brave band in the southern scourge<br>Heroic courage display.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This noble band of charity<br>Have went from house to house,<br>To ease the sad misery of<br>The sufferers at the south;<br>Sad scenes of death and suffering<br>Each day they must endure,<br>As in the daily rounds they went<br>Among the afflicted poor.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The noble northern people<br>Have helped them all they can,<br>In money, food and clothing<br>Which they had at their command;<br>There is many a southern person<br>That will bless this Howard band,<br>For their noble deeds of charity<br>To the sufferers of their land.</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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Down in the sunny south;
And in many of the cities,
There was a death at every house.
This plague a war was raging,
With the lives of people there;
The young and old were stricken down,
And lay in sad despair.

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