We were married and lived together for seventy years,
Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children,
Eight of whom we lost
Ere I had reached the age of sixty.
(Lucinda Matlock)
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And I chiseled for them whatever they wished,All in ignorance of its truth.
Edgar Lee Masters
Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the Republic
Would 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
But if he could describe it all
He would be an artist.
Edgar Lee Masters
My secret: Under a mound that you shall never find.
Edgar Lee Masters
Immortality is not a gift, Immortality is an achievement; And only those who strive mightily Shall possess it.
Edgar Lee Masters
There were Benjamin Pantier and his wife,
Good in themselves, but evil toward each other:
He oxygen, she hydrogen,
Their son, a devastating fire.
Edgar Lee Masters
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