Take note, passers-by, of the shar… Eaten in my head-stone by the wind… Almost as if an intangible Nemesi… Were marking scores against me, But to destroy, and not preserve,…

I could not run or play In boyhood. In manhood I could only sip the c… Not drink— For scarlet-fever left my heart di…

Whenever the Presbyterian bell Was rung by itself, I knew it as… But when its sound was mingled With the sound of the Methodist,… The Baptist and the Congregationa…

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…

Were you not ashamed, fellow citiz… When my estate was probated and ev… How small a fortune I left?— You who hounded me in life, To give, give, give to the churche…

Rich, honored by my fellow citizen… The father of many children, born… All raised there In the great mansion-house, at the… Note the cedar tree on the lawn!

Jonas Keene thought his lot a har… Because his children were all fail… But I know of a fate more trying… It is to be a failure while your c… For I raised a brood of eagles

Do you remember when I stood on t… Of the Court House and talked fre… And the single-tax of Henry Georg… Then do you remember that, when th… Lost the first battle, I began to…

Do you think that odes and sermons… And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and young… Martyred for the truth they saw With eyes made bright by faith in…

’Twas the shrunken soul of the tra… That whined in a coign of the dark… And the fiends were aroused from s… When Cerberus began to bark. ‘Methought that I spoke’ said Jul…

I sat on the bank above Bernadott… And dropped crumbs in the water, Just to see the minnows bump each… Until the strongest got the prize. Or I went to my little pasture,

Seeds in a dry pod, tick, tick, ti… Tick, tick, tick, like mites in a… Faint iambics that the full breeze… But the pine tree makes a symphony… Triolets, villanelles, rondels, ro…

I was the first fruits of the batt… When I felt the bullet enter my h… I wished I had staid at home and… For stealing the hogs of Curl Tre… Instead of running away and joinin…

She took my strength by minutes, She took my life by hours, She drained me like a fevered moon That saps the spinning world. The days went by like shadows,

This weeping willow! Why do you not plant a few For the millions of children not y… As well as for us? Are they not non-existent, or cell…