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POETRY: A Magazine of Verse

Sadie Bimberg—that's her name Down in Houston Street; And her brother, Isidore, With his family—wife, and four— Lives there now, unknown to fame: He sells Kosher meat.

Sadie used to work In Lasalle's department store; Wasn't thirteen when she started (White and scrawny with big eyes Black and lustrous, and black hair In two pig-tails tied with red; Over-tall and under-fed!) On the dubious ascent Toward a living wage But shirk— Always, from the very first— All she durst! Dared to dream she wasn't meant To live in a tenement, Help her mother pay the rent: "What a foolishness," thought Sadie, "I was born to be a lady!"