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Edgar Lee Masters (1868–1950). Spoon River Anthology. 1916.
118. John Hancock Otis
AS to democracy, fellow citizens, | |
Are you not prepared to admit | |
That I, who inherited riches and was to the manner born, | |
Was second to none in Spoon River | |
In my devotion to the cause of Liberty? | 5 |
While my contemporary, Anthony Findlay, | |
Born in a shanty and beginning life | |
As a water carrier to the section hands, | |
Then becoming a section hand when he was grown, | |
Afterwards foreman of the gang, until he rose | 10 |
To the superintendency of the railroad, | |
Living in Chicago, | |
Was a veritable slave driver, | |
Grinding the faces of labor, | |
And a bitter enemy of democracy. | 15 |
And I say to you, Spoon River, | |
And to you, O republic, | |
Beware of the man who rises to power | |
From one suspender. |
John Hancock Otis |
Antologia di Spoon River |
Antologia di Spoon River
Quanto alla democrazia, concittadini,
E. LEE MASTERS
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