"Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under … - Edgar Lee Masters

"Rather a thousand times the county jail than to lie under this marble figure with wings and this granite pedestal bearing the words "pro patria." What do they mean anyway?"

Edgar Lee Masters

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About Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters (23 August 1868 – 5 March 1950) was an American poet, biographer and dramatist. He is most famous for the Spoon River Anthology.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay William Butler Yeats Emily Dickinson Lord Byron Alexander Pushkin

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Blind as I was, I tried to get out
As the carriage fell in the ditch,
And was caught in the wheels and killed.

O world, that's you!
You are but a widened place in the river
Where Life looks down and we rejoice for her
Mirrored in us, and so we dream
And turn away

There is something about Death
Like love itself!

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