If the excursion train to Peoria
Had just been wrecked, I might have escaped with my life --
Certainly I should have escaped this place.
(Barney Hainsfeather)
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But two of the children thought he was right,And two of the children thought I was right.
Edgar Lee Masters
And now from the battlements of time, behold:
Thrice thirty million souls being bound together
In the love of larger truth,
Rapt in the expectation of the birth
Of a new Beauty,
Sprung from Brotherhood and Wisdom.
Edgar Lee Masters
Oh many times did Ernest Hyde and I
Argue about the freedom of the will.
Edgar Lee Masters
Life all around me here in the village:
Tragedy, comedy, valor and truth,
Courage, constancy, heroism, failure--
All in the loom, and oh what patterns!
Edgar Lee Masters
But a promise is a promise
And marriage is marriage,
And out of respect for my own character
I refused to be drawn into a divorce
By the scheme of a husband who had merely grown tired
Of his marital vow and duty.
Edgar Lee Masters
Then that woman, whom the men
Styled Cleopatra, came along.
Edgar Lee Masters
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