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"It was in the empty house
That I came to dwell
And in the empty house
I found an empty hell.
Why is it that an empty house,
Untouched by human strife
Can hold more woe
Than the wide world holds,
More pain than a cutting knife?"
AUTHOR
Langston Hughes
KEYWORDS
empty, house, dwell, hell
GENRE
20th Century Poetry
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