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Grandfather in Russia, 1921
Submitted by robrwo on Tue, 10/06/2009 - 7:26am.
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This image was found among a collection of family photos, with the caption "Grandfather Russia 1921." Possibly taken in Grodno (now called Hrudna), in Belarus. On the back of the photo is written a free-verse poem:
I want so much, yet I live so little Things mean nothing But God, the wants, the needs the hungers Oft even the shortest life Are greater than the longest death. Yet we desire, oh Lord, heaven And receiving earth, are satisfied. Let me forget fool's advice And bask in childlike happiness Yet I am human, and must want Everything, receiving but percent
I've no idea who wrote the poem.
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