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Amy Levy
1861 - 1889

A CROSS-ROAD EPITAPH

   Am Kruzweg wird begraben

     Wer selber brachte divh um.

WHEN first the world grew dark to me

I call'd on God, yet came not he.

Whereon, as wearier waxed my lot,

On Love I call'd, but Love came not.

When a worse evil did befall,

Death, on thee only did I call.

Levy
Amy Levy

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