ALONE—ALONE!

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BY MRS. I. W. MERCUR.

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“Her friends had one after one departed, and in her mind continually rang the monotonous words, alone, alone!”

I am alone, oh God! alone—alone!

Yet thousands round me crowd life’s busy mart,

Whose ceaseless hum is as a deathless moan

Forever falling on my weary heart—

I am alone!