I was the beggar with bruisèd feet;
I was the woman you gave to eat;
I was the child on the homeless street!”
—From “The Shoes of Happiness and Other Poems.” Copyright by Doubleday, Page & Co., and used by kind permission of author and publisher.
PICKETT’S CHARGE
By Fred Emerson Brooks
When Pickett charged at Gettysburg,
For three long days, with carnage fraught,
Two hundred thousand men had fought;
And courage could not gain the field,