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?
(Sersmith The Dentist)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the RepublicWould have been heard if the chattel slave
Had crowned the dominant dollar,
In spite of Whitney's cotton gin,
And steam and rolling mills and iron
And telegraphs and white free labor?
Edgar Lee Masters
I died to you, no doubt.
Edgar Lee Masters
But here is a joke of cosmic size:
The urge of nature that made a man
Evolve from his brain a spiritual life --
Oh miracle of the world!
Edgar Lee Masters
I would have been as great as George Eliot
But for an untoward fate.
Edgar Lee Masters
My wife hated me, my son went to the dogs.
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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