While I was handling Dom Pedro I got at the thing that divides th… For singing “Turkey in the straw”… (Like Rile Potter used to sing it… For cards, or for Rev. Peet’s lec…

My parents thought that I would b… As great as Edison or greater: For as a boy I made balloons And wondrous kites and toys with c… And little engines with tracks to…

My valiant fight! For I call it v… With my father’s beliefs from old… Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, coura… Thrown into life here in Spoon Ri…

There is the caw of a crow, And the hesitant song of a thrush. There is the tinkle of a cowbell f… And the voice of a plowman on Shi… The forest beyond the orchard is s…

When conquerors lift the bloody sh… Showing the fallen’s ooze of life, And on a waste of blasted field Joy quickens to the drum and fife, Then the weird brood of flame and…

I said when they handed me my dipl… I said to myself I will be good And wise and brave and helpful to… I said I will carry the Christian… Into the practice of medicine!

Your attention, Thomas Rhodes, pr… Coolbaugh Wedon, editor of the Ar… Rev. Peet, pastor of the leading… A.D. Blood, several times Mayor… And finally all of you, members of…

All your sorrow, Louise, and hatr… Sprang from your delusion that it… Of spirit and contempt of your sou… Which made me turn to Annabelle a… You really grew to hate me for lov…

Doc Meyers said I had satyriasis, And Doc Hill called it leucaemia— But I know what brought me here: I was sixty-four but strong as a m… Of thirty-five or forty.

Not in that wasted garden Where bodies are drawn into grass That feeds no flocks, and into eve… That bear no fruit— There where along the shaded walks

Whoever thou art who passest by Know that my father was gentle, And my mother was violent, While I was born the whole of suc… Not intermixed and fused,

The Prohibitionists made me Town… When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man… Before I joined the church, I kil… At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.

After I had attended lectures At our Chautauqua, and studied Fr… For twenty years, committing the g… Almost by heart, I thought I’d take a trip to Pari…

I bought every kind of machine tha… Grinders, shellers, planters, mowe… Mills and rakes and ploughs and th… And all of them stood in the rain… Getting rusted, warped and battere…

I staggered on through darkness, There was a hazy sky, a few stars Which I followed as best I could. It was nine o’clock, I was trying… But somehow I was lost,