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Anton Sosnowski from the Shakspeare School	A
Where he assists the janitor sweeps and dusts	B
The day now done sits by a smeared up table	C
Munching coarse bread and drinking beer before him	D
The evening paper spread held down or turned	E
By claw like hands covered with shiny scars	F
He broods upon the war news and his fate	G
Which keeps him from the war looks up and sees	H
His scarred face in the mirror over the wainscot	G
His lashless eyes and browless brows and head	G
With patches of thin hair And then he mutters	I
Hot curses to himself and turns the paper	J
And curses Germany and asks revenge	K
For Poland's wrongs	L
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And what is this he sees	H
The picture of his ruin and his hate	G
Wert Rufus Fox This leader of the bar	M
Is made the counselor of the city now	N
The city takes gas cars and telephones	O
And runs them for the people So this man	P
Grown rich through machinations against the people	C
Who fought the people all his life before	Q
Abettor aider thinker for the slickers	I
Regraters and forestallers and engrossers	I
Is now the friend adviser of the city	G
Which he so balked and thwarted growing rich	R
Feared noted bowed to for the very treason	S
For which he is so hated yet deferred to	G
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And Anton looks upon the picture reads	I
About the great man's ancestry here printed	G
And all the great achievements of his life	T
Once president of the bar association	S
And member of this club and of that club	U
Contributor to charities and art	G
A founder of a library a vestryman	S
And Anton looks upon the picture trembles	I
Before the picture's eyes They are the eyes	I
Of Innocent the Tenth with cruelty	G
And cunning added eyes that see all things	I
And boulder jaws that crush all things the jaws	I
That place themselves at front of drifts are placed	G
By that world irony which mocks the good	G
And gives the glory and the victory	G
To strength and greed	G
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Anton Sosnowski looks	I
Long at the picture then at his own hands	I
And laughs maniacally as he takes the mug	V
With both hands like a bird with frozen claws	I
These broken burned off hands which handle bread	G
As they were wooden rakes And in a mirror	J
Beside the table in the wall smeared over	J
With steam from red hots kraut and cookery	J
Of smoking fats fixed by the dust in blurs	I
And streaks he sees his own face horrible	C
For scars and splotches as of leprosy	G
The eyes that have no lashes and no brows	I
The bullet head that has no hair the ears	I
Burnt off at top	W
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So comes it to this Pole	X
Who sees beside the picture of the lawyer	J
The clear cut face of Elenor Murray yes	I
She gave her spirit to the war is dead	G
Her life is being sifted now But Fox	I
Lives for more honors and by honors covers	I
His days of evil	C
	-
Thus Sosnowski broods	I
And lives again that moment of hell when fire	J
Burst like a geyser from a vat where gas	I
Had gathered in his ignorance being sent	G
To light a drying stove within the vat	G
A work not his who was the engineer	J
The gas exploded as he struck the match	Y
And like an insect fixed upon a pin	S
And held before a flame hands face and body	G
Were burned and broken as his body shot	G
Up and against the brewery wall What next	G
The wearisome and tangled ways of courts	I
With Rufus Fox for foe four trials in all	Z
Where juries disagreed who heard the law	A2
Erroneously given by the court	G
At last a verdict favorable and a court	G
Sitting above the forum where he won	S
To say as there's no evidence to show	B2
Just how the gas got in the vat Sosnowski	G
Must go for life with broken hands unhelped	G
And that the fact alone of gas therein	S
Though naught to show his fault had brought it there	J
The mere explosion did not speak a fault	G
Against the brewery	G
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Out from court he went	G
To use a broom with crumpled hands and look	C2
For life in mirrors at his ghastly face	I
And brood until suspicion grew to truth	D2
That Rufus Fox had compassed juries courts	I
And read of Rufus Fox who day by day	G
Was featured in the press for noble deeds	I
For Art or Charity for notable dinners	I
Guests travels and what not	G
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So now the Pole	X
Reading of Elenor Murray cursed himself	E2
That he could brood and wait for what and grow	B2
More weak of will for brooding while this woman	S
Had gone to war and served and ended it	G
Yet he lived on and could not go to war	J
Saw only days of sweeping with these hands	I
And every day his face within the mirror	J
And every afternoon this glass of beer	J
And coarse bread and these thoughts	I
And every day some story to arouse	I
His sense of justice how the generous	I
Give and pass on and how the selfish live	F2
And gather honors But Sosnowski thought	G
If I could do a flaming thing to show	B2
What courts are ours what matter if I die	G
What if they took their quick lime and erased	G
My flesh and bones expunged my very name	G2
And made its syllables forbidden still	H2
If I brought in a new day for the courts	I
Have I not served he thought Sosnowski rose	I
And to the bar drank whiskey then went out	G
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That afternoon Elihu Rufus Fox	I
Came home to dress for a dinner to be given	S
For English notables in town to rest	G
After a bath and found himself alone	S
His wife at Red Cross work And there alone	S
Collarless lounging in a comfort chair	J
Poring on Wordsworth's poems all at once	I
Before he hears the door turned rather feels	I
A foot fall and a presence hears too soon	S
A pistol shot looks up and sees Sosnowski	G
Who fires again but misses grabs the man	S
Disarms him flings him down and finding blood	G
Upon his shirt sleeve sees his hand is hit	G
No other damage then the pistol takes	I
And covering Sosnowski looks at him	D
And after several seconds gets the face	I
Which gradually comes forth from memories	I
Of many cases knows the man at last	G
And studying Sosnowski Rufus Fox	I
Divines what drove the fellow to this deed	G
And in these moments Rufus Fox beholds	I
His life and work and how he made the law	A2
A thing to use how he had builded friendships	I
In clubs and churches courted politicians	I
And played with secret powers and compromised	G
Causes and truths for power and capital	C
To draw on as a lawyer so to win	S
Favorable judgments when his skill was hired	G
By those who wished to win who had to win	S
To keep the social order undisturbed	G
And wealth where it was wrenched to	G
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And Rufus Fox	I
Knew that this trembling wreck before him knew	G
About this course of life at making law	A2
And using law and using those who sit	G
To administer the law And then he said	G
Why did you do this	I
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And Sosnowski spoke	I2
I meant to kill you where's your right to live	F2
When millions have been killed to make the world	G
A safer place for liberty Where's your right	G
To live and have more honors be the man	S
To guide the city now that telephones	I
Gas railways have been taken by the city	G
I meant to kill you just to help the poor	J
Who go to court For had I killed you here	J
My story would be known no matter if	J2
They buried me in lime and made my name	G2
A word no man could speak Now I have failed	G
And since you have the pistol point it at me	G
And kill me now for if you tell the world	G
You killed me in defense of self the world	G
Will never doubt you for the world believes you	G
And will not doubt your word whatever it is	I
	-
And Rufus Fox replied Your mind is turned	G
For thinking of your case when you should know	B2
This country is a place of laws and law	A2
Must have its way no matter who is hurt	G
Now I must turn you over to the courts	I
And let you feel the hard hand of the law	A2
Just then the wife of Rufus Fox came in	S
And saw her husband with his granite jaws	I
And lowering countenance blood on his shirt	G
The pistol in his hand the scarred Sosnowski	G
Facing the lawyer	J
	-
Seeing that her husband	G
Had no wound but a hand clipped of the skin	S
And learning what the story was she saw	A2
It was no time to let Sosnowski's wrong	K2
Come out to cloud the glory of her husband	G
Now that in a new day he had come to stand	G
With progress fairer terms of life to let	G
The corpse of a dead day be brought beside	G
The fresh and breathing life of brighter truth	D2
Quickly she called the butler gave him charge	L2
Over Sosnowski who was taken out	G
Held in the kitchen while the two conferred	G
The husband and the wife	T
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To him she said	G
They two alone now I can see your plan	S
To turn this fellow over to the law	A2
It will not do my dear it will not do	G
For though I have been sharer in your life	T
Partaker of its spoils and fruits I see	G
This man is just a ghost of a dead day	G
Of your past life perhaps in which I shared	G
But that dead life I would not resurrect	G
In memory even it has passed us by	G
You shall not live it more no more shall I	G
The war has changed the world the harvest coming	M2
Will have its tares no doubt but the old tares	G
Have been cut out and burned wholly I trust	G
And just to think you used that sharpened talent	G
For getting money place in the old regime	N2
To place you where to day Why where you must	G
Use all your talents for the common good	G
A barter takes two parties and the traffic	O2
Whereby the giants of the era gone	S
You are a giant rising on the wreck	P2
Of programs and of plots made riches for	J
Themselves and those they served is gone as well	Q2
Since gradually no one is left to serve	R2
Or have an interest but the state or city	G
The community which is all and should be all	Z
So here you are at last despite yourself	E2
Changed not in mind perhaps but changed in place	G
Work interest taking pride too in the work	S2
And speaking with your outer mind at least	G
Praise for the day and work	S2
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I am at fault	G
And take no virtue to myself I lived	G
Your life with you and coveted the things	G
Your labors brought me All is changed for me	G
I would be poorer than this wretched Pole	X
Rather than go back to the day that's dead	G
Or reassume the moods I lived them through	G
What can we do now to undo the past	G
Those days of self indulgence ostentation	S
False prestige witless pride that waste of time	T2
Money and spirit haunted by ennui	G
Insatiable emotion thirst for change	U2
At least we can do this We can set up	V2
The race's progress and our country's glory	G
As standards for our work each day go on	S
Perhaps in ignorance misguided faith	W2
And let the end approve our poor attempts	G
Now to begin I ask two things of you	G
If you or anyone who did your will	H2
Wronged this poor Pole make good the wrong at once	G
And for the sake of bigness let him go	B2
For your own name's sake let the fellow go	B2
Do you so promise me	G
	-
And Rufus Fox	G
Who looked a thunder cloud of wrath and power	J
Before the mirror tying his white tie	G
All this time silent only spoke these words	G
Go tell the butler to keep guard on him	D
And hold him till we come from dinner	J
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The wife	T
Looked at the red black face of Rufus Fox	G
There in the mirror which like Lao's mirror	J
Reflected what his mind was then went out	G
Gently to her bidding found Sosnowski	G
Laughing and talking with the second maid	G
Watched over by the butler quite himself	E2
His pent up anger half discharged his grudge	X2
In part relieved	G
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There was a garrulous ancient at LeRoy	J
Who traced all evils to monopoly	G
In land all social cures to single tax	G
He tried to button hole the coroner	J
And tell him what he thought of Elenor Murray	G
But Merival escaped And then this man	S
Consider Freeland named got in a group	Y2
And talked his mind out of the case the land	G
And what makes poverty and waste in lives	G