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Archibald Lowell owner of the Times	A
Lived six months of the year at Sunnyside	B
His Gothic castle near LeRoy so named	C
Because no sun was in him it may be	D
His wife was much away when on this earth	E
At cures in travel fighting psychic ills	F
Approaching madness dying nerves They said	G
Her heart was starved for living with a man	H
So cold and silent Thirty years she lived	I
Bound to this man in restless agony	D
And as she could not free her life from his	J
Nor keep it living with him on a day	K
She stuck a gas hose in her mouth and drank	L
Her lungs full of the lethal stuff and died	B
That was the very day the hunter found	M
Elenor Murray's body near the river	N
A servant saw this Mrs Lowell lying	O
A copy of the Times clutched in her hand	P
Which published that a slip of paper found	M
In Elenor Murray's pocket had these words	Q
To be brave and not to flinch And was she brave	R
And nerved to end it by these words of Elenor	N
But Archibald the husband could not bear	N
To have the death by suicide made known	S
He laid the body out as if his wife	T
Had gone to bed as usual turned a jet	U
And left it just as if his wife had failed	V
To fully turn it then went in the room	W
Then called the servants did not know that one	X
Had seen her with the Times clutched in her hand	P
He thought the matter hidden Merival	Y
All occupied with Elenor Murray's death	Z
Gave to a deputy the Lowell inquest	A2
But later what this servant saw was told	B2
To Merival	Y
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And now no more alone	S
Than when his wife lived Lowell passed the days	C2
At Sunnyside as he had done for years	D2
He sat alone and paced the rooms alone	S
With hands behind him clasped in fear and wonder	N
Of life and what life is He rode about	E2
And viewed his blooded cattle on the hills	F
But what were all these rooms and acres to him	F2
With no face near him but the servants gardeners	G2
Sometimes he wished he had a child to draw	N
Upon his fabulous income growing more	N
Since all his life was centered in the Times	A
To swell its revenues and in the process	H2
His spirit was more fully in the Times	A
Than in his body There were eyes who saw	N
How deftly was his spirit woven in it	I2
Until it was a scarf to bind and choke	J2
The public throat or stifle honest thought	K2
Like a soft pillow offered for the head	G
But used to smother There were eyes who saw	N
The working of its ways emasculate	I2
Its tones of gray where flame had been the thing	O
Its timorous steps while spying on the public	L2
To learn the public's thought Its cautious pauses	M2
With foot uplifted ears pricked up to hear	N
A step fall twig break Platitudes in progress	H2
With sugar coat of righteousness and order	N
Respectability	D
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Did the public make it	I2
Or did it make the public that it fitted	N2
With such exactness in the communal life	T
Some thousands thought it fair what should they think	O2
When it played neutral in the matter of news	P2
To both sides of the question though at last	Q2
It turned the judge and chose the better side	B
Determined from the first a secret plan	H
And cunning way to turn the public scale	Y
Some thousands liked the kind of news it printed	N2
Where no sensation flourished smallest type	R2
That fixed attention for the staring eyes	S2
Needed for type so small But others knew	T2
It led the people by its fair pretensions	U2
And used them in the end In any case	V2
This editor played hand ball in this way	K
The advertisers tossed the ball the readers	G2
Caught it and tossed it to the advertisers	G2
And as the readers multiplied the columns	W2
Of advertising grew and Lowell's thought	K2
Was how to play the one against the other	N
And fill his purse	X2
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It was an ingrown mind	Y2
And growing more ingrown with time Afraid	Z2
Of crowds and streets uncomfortable in clubs	A3
No warmth in hands to touch his fellows' hands	B3
Keeping aloof from politicians loathing	O
The human alderman who bails the thief	C3
The little scamp who pares a little profit	D3
And grafts upon a branch that takes no harm	E3
He loved the active spirit if it worked	F3
And feared the active spirit if it played	Z2
This Lowell hid himself from favor seekers	G2
Such letters filtered to him through a sieve	G3
Of secretaries If he had a friend	H3
Who was a mind to him as well perhaps	I3
It was a certain lawyer but who knew	T2
And cursed with monophobia none the less	H2
This Lowell lived alone there near LeRoy	N
Surrounded by his servants at his desk	J3
A secretary named McGill who took	K3
Such letters editorials as he spoke	J2
His life was nearly waste A peanut stand	P
Should be as much remembered as the Times	A
When fifty years are passed	Q2
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And every month	L3
The circulation manager came down	M3
To tell the great man of the gain or loss	N3
The paper made that month in circulation	X
In advertising chiefly Lowell took	K3
The audit sheets and studied them and gave	R
Steel bullet words of order this or that	O3
He took the dividends and put them where	N
God knew alone	S
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He went to church sometimes	A
On certain Sundays for a pious mother	N
Had reared him so and sat there like a corpse	P3
A desiccated soul so dry the moss	N3
Upon his teeth was dry	N
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And on a day	K
His wife now in the earth a week or so	Q3
Himself not well the doctor there to quiet	D3
His fears of sudden death pains in the chest	A2
His manager had come was made to wait	R3
Until the doctor finished brought the sheets	S3
Which showed the advertising circulation	X
And Lowell studied them and said at last	Q2
That new reporter makes the Murray inquest	A2
A thing of interest does the public like it	I2
To which the manager It sells the paper	N
And then the great man It has served its use	T3
Now being nearly over print these words	Q
The Murray inquest shows to what a length	U3
Fantastic wit can go it should be stopped	V3
An editorial later might be well	Y
Comment upon a father and a mother	N
Invaded in their privacy and life	T
In intimate relations dragged to view	T2
To sate the curious eye	N
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Next day the Times	A
Rebuked the coroner in these words And then	W3
Merival sent word I come to see you	T2
Or else you come to see me or by process	H2
If you refuse And so the editor	N
Invited Merival to Sunnyside	B
To talk the matter out This was the talk	X3
First Merival went over all the ground	M
In mild locution what he sought to do	T2
How as departments in the war had studied	Y3
Disease and what not tabulated facts	Z3
He wished to make a start for knowing lives	A4
And finding remedies for lives It's true	T2
Not much might be accomplished also true	T2
The poet and the novelist gave thought	K2
Analysis to lives yet who could tell	Y
What system might grow up to find the fault	B4
In marriage as it is in rearing children	X
In motherhood in homes for Merival	Y
By way of wit said to this dullest man	H
I know of mother and of home of heaven	X
I've yet to learn Whereat the great man winced	C4
To hear the home and motherhood so slurred	D4
And briefly said the Times would go its way	K
To serve the public interests and to foster	N
American ideals as he conceived them	E4
Then Merival who knew the great man's nature	N
How small it was and barren cold and dull	Y
And wedded to small things to gold and fear	N
Of change and knew the life the woman lived	I
These seven days in the earth with such a man	H
Just by a zephyr of intangible thought	K2
Veered round the talk to her to voice a wonder	N
About the jet left turned his deputy	D
Had overlooked a hose which she could drink	O2
Gas from a jet You needn't touch the jet	U
Just leave it as she left it hide the hose	F4
And leave the gas on put the woman in bed	G
This deputy said Merival was slack	G4
And let a verdict pass of accident	H4
Oh yes said Merival your servant told	B2
About the hose the Times clutched in her hand	P
And may I test this jet while I am here	N
Go up to see and test it	I2
	-
Whereupon	I4
The great man with wide eyes stared in the eyes	S2
Of Merival was speechless for a moment	H4
Not knowing what to say while Merival	Y
Read something in his eyes saw in his eyes	S2
The secret beat to cover saw the man	H
Turn head away which shook a little saw	N
His chest expand for breath and heard at last	Q2
The editor in four steel bullet words	Q
It is not necessary	D
	-
Merival	Y
Had trapped the solitary fox arose	F4
And going said If it was suicide	B
The inquest must be changed	J4
	-
The editor	N
Looked through the window at the coroner	N
Walking the gravel walk and saw his hand	P
Unlatch the iron gate and saw him pass	K4
From view behind the trees	L4
	-
Then horror rose	F4
Within his brain a nameless horror took	K3
The heart of him for fear this coroner	N
Would dig this secret up and show the world	M4
The dead face of the woman self destroyed	N4
And of the talk which would not come to him	F2
To poison air he breathed no less of why	N
This woman took her life if for ill health	O4
Then why ill health O well he knew at heart	P4
What he had done to break her starve her life	T
And now accused himself too much for words	Q
Ways temperament of him that murdered her	N
For lovelessness and for deliberate hands	B3
That pushed her off and down	M3
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He rode that day	K
To see his cattle overlook the work	Q4
But when night came with silence and the cry	N
Of night hawks and the elegy of leaves	R4
Beneath the stars that looked so cold at him	F2
As he turned seeking sleep the dreaded pain	S4
Grew stronger in his breast Dawn came at last	Q2
And then the stir and voices of the maids	T4
And after breakfast in the carven room	W
Archibald Lowell standing by the mantel	Y
In his great library felt sudden pain	S4
Saw sudden darkness nothing saw at once	U4
Lying upon the marble of the hearth	V4
His great head cut which struck the post of brass	K4
In the hearth's railing only a little blood	N2
Archibald Lowell being dead at last	Q2
The Times left to the holders of the stock	W4
Who kept his policy and kept the Times	A
As if the great man lived	I
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And Merival	Y
Taking the doctor's word that death was caused	X4
By angina pectoris let it drop	Y4
And went his way with Elenor Murray's case	V2
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So Lowell's dead and buried had to die	N
But not through Elenor Murray That's the Fate	R3
That laughs at greatness little things that sneak	Z4
From alien neighborhoods of life and kill	Y
And Lowell leaves a will to which a boy	N
Who sold the Times once afterward the Star	N
Is alien as this Elenor to the man	H
Who owned the Times But still is brought in touch
With Lowell's will because this Lowell died	B
Before he died And Merival learns the facts	Z3
And brings them to the jury in these words	Q