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Ollie McGee

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Have you seen walking through the village         A Man with downcast eyes and haggard face?         That is my husband who, by secret cruelty         Never to be told, robbed me of my youth and my beauty;         Till at last, wrinkled and with yellow teeth,         And with broken pride and shameful humility,         I sank into the grave.         But what think you gnaws at my husband's heart?         The face of what I was, the face of what he made me!         These are driving him to the place where I lie.         In death, therefore, I am avenged.

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