There is the silence of Lincoln,
Thinking of the poverty of his youth.
(Silence)
More Quotes from Edgar Lee Masters:
What will you do when you come to die,If all your life long you have rejected Jesus,
And know as you lie there, He is not your friend?
Edgar Lee Masters
Thereby also living the life of a sneak-thief,
Poisoned with the anonymous words
Of your clandestine soul.
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I was cold and in pain.
Edgar Lee Masters
I awoke one morning with the love of God
Brimming over my heart, so I went to see Richard
To settle the fence in the spirit of Jesus Christ.
Edgar Lee Masters
Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth
Which must be propped with gold.
Edgar Lee Masters
And the silence of Napoleon
After Waterloo.
Edgar Lee Masters
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