The following poem by Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie appears in Contemporary Verse, Volume 9 (1920), p. 144, as well as the St. Louis weekly newspaper, The Modern View, April 2, 1926, p. 27. While I originally found the poem browsing through the microfilm at the library, the Google Books scan of the 1920 volume is a lot clearer than the microfilm printout, so I will share that below.
Posted for the Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge
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Yes, John, it does still ring true in our times. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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I have no ancestral ties to Missouri, but my father's grandparents were all from Eastern Europe and settled into a new life working in the New Jersey mills. Leah Yoffie's poem certainly reflects their lives, too. Thanks for sharing.
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