Reconcentrados; piteous God!
The misery of want and death!
The heavens smile, the flowers nod,
The birds sing forth their limpid breath-And why?
-A. W. Thomas
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Hellraisers Journal, Monday June 27, 1898
Girard, Kansas – Poems for the People
From the Appeal to Reason of June 25, 1898:
A poem for the Cuban Reconcentrados by A. W. Thomas-
