Frye never tried to publish the poem, and wrote other poems too, but this is the most enduring. Frye began to write a poem for Margaret, intended only to make her feel better she jotted down the lines that just seemed to come into her head, expressing her own feelings about life and death, on the back of an old brown paper bag. When word of her mother's death reached her, Margaret was both riddled with guilt, and bereft, telling Frye that she had never been able to stand at the graveside and shed a tear. Schwartzkopf was Jewish, and although Hitler was still several years from putting his "final solution" into practice, the country was still becoming dangerous and threatening for Jewish Germans. She was worried about her mother back in Germany, who was ill, but she was unable to go home to see her because of the increasingly dangerous state of affairs in her home country. In 1932, a German woman by the name of Margaret Schwartzkopf, was the guest of Mary Elizabeth Frye, in Baltimore.
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