And there is the silence of the dead.
(Silence)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
Why are you running so fast hither and thitherChasing midges or butterflies?
Edgar Lee Masters
But why will you never see that love of women,
And even love of wine,
Are the stimulants by which the soul, hungering for divinity,
Reaches the ecstatic vision
And sees the celestial outposts?
Edgar Lee Masters
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!
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Where is my boy, my boy --
In what far part of the world?
Edgar Lee Masters
And no mother would let her baby suck
Diseased milk from her breast.
Edgar Lee Masters
In my last sickness I was in agony, but I was resolute
And I cursed God for my suffering;
Still He paid no attention to me;
He left me alone, as He had always done.
Edgar Lee Masters
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