But not content,
Wishing to own two thousand acres,
I bustled through the years with axe and plow,
Toiling, denying myself, my wife, my sons, my daughters.
(Cooney Potter)
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And joy beyond any joy is the joyOf having the good in you seen, and seeing the good
At the miraculous moment!
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I fell just as she gored me to my death.
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Sweet it was to see the crowds about the lawns on the day of my funeral,
And hear them murmur their love and sorrow.
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I thought over the last letter written me
By that estranged young soul
Whose betrayal of me I had concealed
By marrying the old man.
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Do you think that odes and sermons,
And the ringing of church bells,
And the blood of old men and young men,
Martyred for the truth they saw
With eyes made bright by faith in God,
Accomplished the world's great reformations?
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There is the silence of those who have failed;
And the vast silence that covers
Broken nations and vanquished leaders.
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