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Go by reverently, and read with sober care
How a great people, riding with defiant shouts
The centaur of Revolution,
Spurred and whipped to frenzy,
Shook with terror, seeing the mist of the sea
Over the precipice they were nearing,
And fell from his back in precipitate awe
To celebrate the Feast of the Supreme Being.
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Such phantom blossoms palely shining
Over the lifeless boughs of Time.
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The much-sought prize of eternal youth Is just arrested growth.
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You may think, passer-by, that Fate
Is a pit-fall outside of yourself,
Around which you may walk by the use of foresight
And wisdom.
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I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle —
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
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In my Spanish cloak,
And old slouch hat,
And overshoes of felt,
And Tyke, my faithful dog,
And my knotted hickory cane,
I slipped about with a bull's-eye lantern
From door to door on the square
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
August 23, 1868
Died:
March 5, 1950
(aged 81)
Bio:
Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist.
Known for:
Spoon River Anthology (1915)
Across Spoon River (1936)
The Sangamon (1942)
Songs And Satires (1916)
Toward The Gulf (1918)
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