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Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

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O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel's body drifted as smoke
Through the air.

Source: Title poem, O the Chimneys, 1967.
-- Nelly Sachs, (Dec 10 1891-1970), German poet, dramatist; She was transformed by the Nazi experience from dilettante into poignant spokesman for the grief of fellow Jews; won Nobel Prize for Literature, 1966.

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