Here lies the body of Lois Spears… Born Lois Fluke, daughter of Wil… Wife of Cyrus Spears, Mother of Myrtle and Virgil Spea… Children with clear eyes and sound…

I have studied many times The marble which was chiseled for… A boat with a furled sail at rest… In truth it pictures not my destin… But my life.

At first I suspected something— She acted so calm and absent-minde… And one day I heard the back door… As I entered the front, and I saw… Back of the smokehouse into the lo…

Their spirits beat upon mine Like the wings of a thousand butte… I closed my eyes and felt their sp… I closed my eyes, yet I knew when… Fringed their cheeks from downcast…

They called me the weakling, the s… For my brothers were strong and be… While I, the last child of parent… Inherited only their residue of po… But they, my brothers, were eaten…

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,

Horses and men are just alike. There was my stallion, Billy Lee, Black as a cat and trim as a deer, With an eye of fire, keen to start… And he could hit the fastest speed

Dear Jane! dear winsome Jane! How you stole in the room (where… In your nurse’s cap and linen cuff… And took my hand and said with a s… “You are not so ill—you’ll soon be…

I winged my bird, Though he flew toward the setting… But just as the shot rang out, he… Up and up through the splinters of… Till he turned right over, feather…

How did you feel, you libertarians… Who spent your talents rallying no… Around the saloon, as if Liberty Was not to be found anywhere excep… Or at a table, guzzling?

Why did Albert Schirding kill him… Trying to be County Superintenden… Blest as he was with the means of… And wonderful children, bringing h… Ere he was sixty?

I was the laughing-stock of the vi… Chiefly of the people of good sens… Also of the learned, like Rev. Pe… The same as English. For instead of talking free trade,

I never saw any difference Between playing cards for money And selling real estate, Practicing law, banking, or anythi… For everything is chance.

They first charged me with disorde… There being no statute on blasphem… Later they locked me up as insane Where I was beaten to death by a… My offense was this:

Ye who are kicking against Fate, Tell me how it is that on this hil… Running down to the river, Which fronts the sun and the south… This plant draws from the air and…