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Tuesday, January 17, 2006

Why Weighs The Heart Heavy? Comments

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Why weighs the heart heavy? ? Why drags life so dreary?
Why is the heart weeping and sobbing and sighing
As a child cries from hunger? Heart, heavy and weary,
What do you long for? Why are you sighing?
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Taras Shevchenko

heart Longing food

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Smoky Hoss 12 April 2022

What an amazingly poignant and appropriate poem by this iconic Ukrainian poet.

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