"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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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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Thou wert wise to chisel for me:
«Taken from the evil to come».

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished;
And what is love but a rose that fades?

Now I, an under-tenant of the earth, can see
That the branches of a tree
Spread no wider than its roots.
And how shall the soul of a man
Be larger than the life he has lived?

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