My house is poor; those that I love have left me;
My body is sick; I cannot join the feast.
There is not a living soul before my eyes
As I lie alone locked in my cottage room.
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the thoughts of the (once again) banished civil servant - vivid, poignant.
My broken lamp burns with a feeble flame; My tattered curtains are crooked and do not meet. 'Tsek, tsek' on the door-step and window-sill Again I hear the new snow fall. A very fine poem and thoughts. tony