John Campbell And Carl Eaton Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis

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Carl Eaton and John Campbell both were raised	A
With Elenor Murray in LeRoy The mother	B
Of Eaton lived there but these boys had gone	C
Now grown to manhood to Chicago where	D
They kept the old days of companionship	E
And Mrs Eaton saw the coroner	B
And told him how she saved her son from Elenor	B
And broke their troth because upon a time	F
Elenor Murray though betrothed to Carl	G
Went riding with John Campbell and returned	H
At two o'clock in the morning drunk and stood	I
Helpless and weary holding to the gate	J
For which she broke the engagement of her son	K
To Elenor Murray That was truth to her	B
And truth to Merival for the time at least	L
But this John Campbell and Carl Eaton meet	M
One evening at a table drinking beer	B
And talk about the inquest Elenor	B
Since much is published in the Times to stir	B
Their memories of her And John speaks up	N
Well Carl now Elenor Murray is no more	B
And we are friends so long I'd like to know	O
What do you think of her	B
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About the time	F
That May before she finished High School Elenor	B
Broke loose ran wild do you remember Carl	G
She had some trouble in her home I heard	P
She told me so That Alma Bell affair	B
Made all the fellows wonder as you know	O
What kind of game she was if she was game	Q
For me or you or anyone Besides	R
She had flirting eye a winning laugh	S
And she was eighteen and a cherry ripe	T
This Alma Bell affair and ills at home	U
Made her spurt up and dart out like a fuse	V
Which burns to powder wet and powder heated	W
Until it burns she burned you see and stopped	X
When principles or something quenched the flame	Q
I walked with her from school a time or two	Y
When she was hinting flirting with her eyes	Z
I know it now but what a dunce I was	A2
As most men when they're twenty	B2
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Well now listen	K
A little later on an evening	C2
I see her buggy riding with Roy Green	D2
That rake do you remember him deadbeat	M
Half drunkard then corrupted piece of flesh	E2
She sat up in defiance by his side	F2
Her chin stuck out to tell the staring ones	G2
Go talk or censure to your heart's content	H2
And people stood and stared to see her pass	I2
And shook their heads and wondered	P
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Afterward	P
I learned from her this was the night at home	U
Her father and her mother had a quarrel	J2
Her mother asked her father to buy Elenor	B
A new dress for commencement and the father	B
Was drinking and rebuffed her so they quarreled	K2
And rode with him to shame her father coming	C2
After a long ride in the country home	U
At ten o'clock or so	O
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Well then I thought	L2
If she will ride with Roy Green I go back	M2
To hinting and to flirting eyes and guess	N2
The girl will ride with me or something more	B
So I begin to circle round the girl	O2
And walk with her and take her riding too	Y
She drops Roy Green for me what does he care	B
He's had enough of her or never cared	P2
Which is it there's the secret for a man	Q2
As long as women interest him who knows	R2
What the precedent fellow was to her	B
Roy Green takes to another and another	B
He died a year ago as you'll remember	B
What were his secrets agony he seemed	S2
A man to me who lived and never thought	L2
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So Elenor Murray went with me Oh well	T2
She gave me kisses let me hold her tight	U2
We used to stop along the country ways	V2
And kiss as long as we had breath to kiss	W2
And she would gasp and tremble	J2
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Then at last	X2
A chum I had began to laugh at me	B2
For I was now in love with Elenor Murray	B2
Don't let her make a fool of you he said	Y2
No girl who ever traveled with Roy Green	D2
Was not what he desired her nor before	B
The kind of girl he wanted Don't you know	O
Roy Green is laughing at you in his sleeve	Z2
And boasts that Elenor Murray was all his	A3
You see that stung me for I thought at twenty	B2
Girls do not go so far that only women	K
Who sell themselves do so or now and then	B3
A girl who is betrayed by hopes of marriage	C3
And here was thrust upon me something devilish	D3
The fair girl that I loved was wise already	B2
And fooling me and drinking in my love	E3
In mockery of me This was my first	F3
Heart sickness jaundice of the soul dear me	B2
And how I suffered lay awake of nights	G3
And wondered doubted hoped or cursed myself	H3
And cursed the girl as well And I would think	I3
Of flirting eyes and hints and how she came	Q
To me before she went with this Roy Green	D2
And I would hear the older men give hints	J3
About their conquests speak of ways and signs	K3
From which to tell a woman On the train	L3
Hear drummers boast and drop apothogems	K3
The woman who drinks with you will be yours	K3
Or she who gives herself to you will give	M3
To someone else you know the kind of talk	N3
Where wisdom of the sort is averaged up	N
But misses finer instances the beauties	K3
Among the million phases of the thing	C2
And so at last I thought the girl was game	Q
And had been snared already Why should I	O3
Be just a cooing dove why not a hawk	N3
We were out riding on a summer's night	U2
A moon and all the rest the scent of flowers	K3
And many kisses as on other times	K3
At last with this sole object in my mind	P3
Long concentrated purposed all at once	K3
I found myself turned violent with hands	K3
At grapple twisting forcing and this girl	O2
In terror pleading with me In a moment	Q3
When I took time for breath she said to me	B2
'I will not ride with you you let me out '	-
To which I said 'You'll do what I desire	B
Or you can walk ten miles back to LeRoy	B
And find Roy Green you like him better maybe '	-
And she said 'Let me out ' and she jumped out	R3
And would not ride with me another step	S3
Though I repented saying come and ride	F2
I think it was a mile or more I drove	T3
The horse slowed up to keep her company	B2
And then I cracked the whip and hurried on	U3
And left her walking looked from time to time	F
To see her in the roadway then drove on	U3
And reached LeRoy which Elenor reached that morning	C2
At one or two	Y
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Well then what was the riddle	J2
Was she in love with Roy Green yet was she	B2
But playing with me was I crude left handed	W
Had she changed over was she trying me	B2
To fasten in the hook of matrimony	B2
Or was she good and all this corner talk	N3
Of Roy Green just the dirt of dirty minds	K3
You know the speculations and you know	O
How they befuddle one at twenty years	K3
And sometimes I would grieve for what I did	V3
Then harden and laugh down my softness But	W3
At last I wrote a note to Elenor Murray	B2
And sent it with a bouquet but no word	P
Came back from Elenor Murray Then I thought	L2
Here is a girl who rides with that Roy Green	D2
And what would he be with her for I ask	X3
And if she wants to make a cause of war	B
Out of an attitude she half provoked	Y3
Why let her and moreover let her go	O
And so I dropped the matter since she dropped	X
My friendship from that night	U2
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But later on	U3
Two years ago when she came back to town	Z3
From somewhere I don't know gone many months	K3
Grown prettier more desirable I sent	H2
Some roses to her in a tender mood	A4
As if to say We're grown up since that night	U2
Have you forgotten it as I remember	B
How womanly you were have grown to be	B2
She wrote me just a little note of thanks	K3
And what is strange that very day I learned	H
About your interest in her learned besides	K3
It prospered for some months before I turned	H
My heart away for good as a man might	U2
Who plunges and beholds the woman smile	B4
And take another's arm and walk away	C4
So that's your story is it said Carl Eaton	K
Well I had married her except for you	Y
That bunch of roses spoiled the girl for me	B2
You had Roy Green dog fennel I had roses	K3
And I am glad you sent them otherwise	K3
I might have married her to find at last	X2
A wife just like her mother is myself	H3
Living her father's life for something missed	D4
Or hated in me not the want of money	B2
She liked me as the banker's son be sure	B
And let me go unwillingly	B2
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But listen	K
I called on her the night you sent the roses	K3
And there she had them on the center table	J2
And twinkled with her eyes and spoke of them	E4
And said I can remember it you sent	H2
Such lovely roses to her you and she	B2
Had been good friends for years and now it seems	K3
You were not friends I didn't know it then	B3
But think about it John What was this woman	K
It's clear her fate found dead there by the river	B
Is just the outward mirror of herself	H3
And had to be There's not a thing in life	F4
That is not first enacted in the heart	G4
Our fate is the reflection of the life	F4
Which goes on in the heart That girl was doomed	H4
Lived in her heart a life that found a birth	I4
Grew up committed matricide at last	X2
Not that my love had saved her But explain	L3
Why would she over stress the roses give	M3
Me understandings foreign to the truth	J4
For truth to tell we were affianced then	B3
There were your roses But above it all	K4
Something she said pricked like a rose's thorn	L4
Something that grew to thought she cherished you	Y
Kept memories sweet of you If that were true	Y
What was the past What was I after all	K4
A second choice as if I bought a car	B
But thought about a car I wanted more	B
So I retired that night in serious thought	L2
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Yet if you'll credit me I had not heard	P
About this Alma Bell affair or heard	P
About her riding through the public streets	K3
With this Roy Green I think I was away	C4
I never heard it anyway I know	O
Until my mother told me and she told me	B2
Next morning after I had found your roses	K3
I hadn't told my mother nor a soul	M4
Before that time that we two were engaged	N4
I didn't tell her then I merely asked	O4
Would Elenor Murray please you as a daughter	B
You should have seen my mother how she gasped	P4
And gestured losing breath to say at last	X2
'Why Carl my boy what are you thinking of	E3
You have not promised marriage to that girl	O2
Now tell me have you ' Then I lied to her	B
And laughed a little answered no and asked	O4
'What do you know about her '	-
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Here's a joke	Q4
With terror in it John if you have told	R4
The truth to me my mother tells me there	B
That on a time John Campbell that is you	Y
And Elenor Murray rode into the country	B2
And that at two o'clock or so the girl	O2
Is seen beside the gate post holding on	U3
And reeling up the side walk to her door	B
The girl was tired if you have told the truth	J4
My mother warms up to this scoundrel Green	D2
And tops the matter off with Alma Bell	T2
And all the love I had for Elenor Murray	B2
Sours in my heart And then I tell my mother	B
The truth of our engagement promise her	B
To break it off I did so on that day	C4
Got back the solitaire but Elenor	B
Hung to me asked my reasons kept the ring	C2
Until I wrote so sternly she gave up	N
Her hope and me	B2
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But worst of all John Campbell	J2
If this be worst this early episode	S4
So nipped my leaves and browned and curled them up	N
To whisper sharply with their bitter edges	K3
No one has seen a bridal wreath in me	B2
Nor have I ever known a woman since	K3
That some analysis did not blow cool	T4
A rising admiration	K
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Now to think	I3
This girl lies dead and while we drink a beer	B
You tell me that the story is a lie	O3
The girl was good walked ten miles through the dark	U4
To save her honor from a ruffian	K
That's what you were as you confess it now	K
And if she did that what is all this talk	N3
Of such a rat as Green of Alma Bell	T2
It isn't true	B
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The only truth is this	K3
I took a lasting poison from a lie	O3
Which built the very cells of me to resist	D4
The thought of marriage poison which remains	K3
I wonder should I tell the coroner	B
No good in that you might as well describe	V4
A cancer to prevent the malady	B2
In people yet to be Let's have a beer	B
John Campbell said I learned from Elenor Murray	B2
The kind of woman I should take to wife	F4
I married just the woman made for me	B2
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If you can say so on your death bed John	K
Then Elenor Murray did one man a good	I
Whatever ill she did to other men	K
See I keep rapping for that waiter I	O3
Would like another beer and so would you	B
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So now it's clear the story is not true	B
Which Mrs Eaton told the coroner	B
And when the coroner told the jurymen	K
What Mrs Eaton told him Winthrop Marion	K
Skilled in the work of running down a tale	W4
Said I can look up Eaton Campbell too	B
And verify or contradict this thing	C2
We have departed far afield in this	K3
It has no bearing on the cause of death	X4
But none of us have liked to see the girl's	K3
Good name integrity of spirit lie	O3
In shadow by this story Merival	O3
Was glad to have these two men interviewed	A4
By Winthrop Marion so he found them talked	Y4
And brought their stories back as told above	E3
Which made the soul of Elenor Murray clear	B
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Paul Roberts was a man of sixty years	K3
Who lived and ran a magazine at LeRoy	B
The Dawn he called it financed by a fund	Z4
Left Roberts by a millionaire who believed
The fund would widen knowledge through the use	K3
Of Roberts student of the Eastern wisdom
This Roberts loathed the war but kept his peace	K3
Because the law compelled it Took this time	F
To fight the Christian faith and show the age
Submerged in Christian ethics weak and false	K3
He knew this Elenor Murray from a child
And knew her rearing schooling knew the air	B
She breathed in at LeRoy And in The Dawn	K
Printed this essay	C4
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We have seen he writes	K3
Astonishing revealments inventories	K3
Taken of souls all coming from the death	X4
Of Elenor Murray and the inquest held
To ascertain her death Perhaps fantastic
This thing may be but scarcely more fantastic
Than rubbing amber watching frogs' legs twitch
From which the light of cities came the power	B
That hauls the coaches over mountain tops	K3
We would do well to laugh at nothing watch
With interested eye the capering souls	K3
Too moved to walk straight If a wire grounds	K3
And interpenetrates the granite blocks	K3
With viewless fire horses shod with steel	O3
Walking along the granite blocks will leap
Like mad things in the air Well so we leap
Before we know the cause Let sound minds laugh	S
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First you agree no man has looked on God
And I contend the souls who found God told	R4
Too little of their triumph But I hold	R4
Man shall find God and know shall see at last	X2
What man's soul is and where it tends the use	K3
It was made for And after that Forever	B
There's progress while there's life all devolution	K
Returns to progress	K3
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As to worship God
They had their amber days days of frogs' legs	K3
And yet before I trace the Christian growth
From seed to blossom let me prophesy	K3
The light upon the lotus blossom pauses	K3
Has paused these centuries and waits to move
Westward and mingle with the light that shines	K3
Upon the Occident What did Christ do	B
But carry the Hebraic thrift and prudence	K3
Of matter and of spirit half corrupted	V3
By wisdom of the market to these races	K3
That crowd in Europe in the Western World
Now you have seen such things as chemistry	B2
And mongering in steel the use of fire	B
Made perfect in swift wheels and swifter wings	K3
Until the realm of matter seems subdued	A4
Thought with her foot upon the dragon's head	Y2
And using him to serve This western world
Massing its powers these centuries to bring	C2
Comfort and happiness and length of days	K3
And pushing commerce trade to pile up gold	R4
Knows not its soul as yet nor God But here	B
I prophesy Suppose the Hindu lore	B
Which has gone farther with the soul of man	K
Than we have gone with business has card cased	R4
The soul's addresses introduced a system
In the soul's business just suppose this lore	B
And great perfection in things spiritual	O3
Should by some process wed the great perfection	K
Of this our western world and we should have
Mastery of spirit and of matter too	R4
Might not that progress start as one result	R4
Of this great war	B
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Let's see from whence we came	Q
I take the Hebrew faith the very frog legs	K3
Of our theology no use to say	K3
It has no place with us Your ministers	K3
Preach from the Pentateuch its decalogue	C2
Is all our ethic nearly and our life	F4
Is suckled by the Hebrews don't the Jews	K3
Control our business while our business rules	K3
Our spirits far too much
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Now let us see	B2
What food our spirits feed on Palestine	K
Is just a little country fights for life	F4
Against a greater prowess skill in arms	K3
So as the will does not give up but hopes	K3
For vengeance and for wiping out of wrongs	K3
The Jews conceive a God who will dry up	N
His people's tears and let them laugh again	K
Hence in Jehovah's mouth they put these words	K3
My word shall stand forever you shall eat	R4
The riches of the Gentiles suck their milk	C2
Your ploughman shall the alien be the stranger	B
Shall feed your flock and I will make you fat	R4
With milk and honey I will give you power	B
Dominion leadership glory forever	B
My wrath is on all nations to avenge
Israel's sorrow and humiliation	K
My sword is bathed in heaven filled with blood	R4
To come upon Idumea to stretch out	R4
Upon it stones of emptiness confusion	K
Her fortresses shall be the habitation	K
Of dragons and a court for owls I smite	R4
The proud Assyrian and make them dead	R4
In fury and in anger do I tread	R4
On Zion's enemies their worm shall die not	R4
Nor shall their fire be quenched I shall stir up	N
Jealousy like a man of war put on	K
The garments of my vengeance and repay	K3
To adversaries fury For my word	R4
Shall stand to preach good tidings to the meek	C2
And liberty to captives and to chains	K3
The opening of prisons	K3
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Don't you see	B2
Our western culture in such words as these	K3
Your proselytes and business man reformer	B
Nourished upon them using them in life	F4
But then you say Christ came with final truth	J4
And put away Jehovah Let us see	B2
What shall become of those who turn from Christ	R4
Not that their souls failed only that they turned	R4
Did not believe accept found in him little	O3
To live by grow by This is what Christ said	R4
Ye vipers in the last day ye shall see	B2
The sun turned dark the moon made blood Behold	R4
I come in clouds of glory and of power	B
To judge the quick and judge the dead Mine own	K
Shall enter into blessedness But to those	K3
Evil who scorned me I shall say depart	R4
Accursed into everlasting fire	B
And quick the gates of heaven shall be shut	R4
And I shall reign in heaven with mine own	K
And let my fire of wrath consume the world	R4
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But then you say what of his love and doctrine	K
Not the old decalogue by him renewed	R4
But new wine to the Jews if not in the world	R4
Unknown before Look close and you shall see	B2
A book of double entries balanced columns	K3
Business in matters spiritual prudential	O3
Rules for life's conduct Yes be merciful	O3
But to obtain your mercy yes forgive	M3
That you may be forgiven honor your parents	K3
That your days may be long Blest are the meek	C2
For they shall inherit the earth Rejoice for great	R4
Is your reward in heaven if they say	K3
All manner of evil of you persecute you	R4
Do you not see the rule of compensation	K
Shot through it all And if you love your neighbor	B
And all men do so then you have the state	R4
Composed to such a level of peace no man	K
Need fear the breaker in unless you keep
This mood of love for preaching for a rule	O3
While business in the Occident goes on	K
Under Jehovah's Hebrew manual	O3
What is it all The meek inherit the earth	I4
For being meek you turn the other cheek	C2
And fill your enemy with shame to strike	C2
A cheek that does not harden to return	K
The blow received But too much in our life	F4
The cheek is turned the hand not made a fist	R4
But opened out to pick a pocket with
While the other cheek is turned Now at the last	R4
Has not this war put by resist not evil	O3
Which was the way of Jesus to the end	R4
Even to buffetings and the crown of thorns	K3
Even the cross and death we put it by	O3
We would not let protagonists thereof	E3
So much as hint the doctrine which is to say	K3
Though it be written over Jesus' life	F4
And be his spirit's essence we see through	R4
The fallacy of that preachment cannot live
In this world by it	R4
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Well let me be plain	K
Races like men find truth in living life	F4
Find thereby what is food and what is poison	K
These are the phylogenetics spiritual	O3
But meanwhile there's the light upon the lotus	K3
Which waits to mingle with the light that shines	K3
Upon the Occident take Jesus' light	R4
Where it is bright enough to mix with it	R4
And show no duller splendor	B
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I look back	C2
Upon the Jew and Jesus on the Thora	B
The gospel dogmatism poetry	B2
The Messianic hope and will and grace	K3
Jesus the Son of God and one with God	R4
The outer theocracy the Kingdom of God within you	R4
St Paul with metaphysics St Augustine	K
Babbling of sin in Cicero's rhetoric	C2
The popes with their intrigues and millions slain	K
O ghastly waste if not O ghastly failure	B
Beside which all the tragedies of time	F
To set up doctrines rulerships and say	K3
Are not a finger scratched O monstrous hate	R4
Born of enfolding love O martyrdom
Of our poor world for ages incurable madness	K3
Bred in the blood and mixed in the forms of thought	R4
Still maddening maiming crucifying killing	C2
The fast appearing sons of men Go ask	C2
What man you will who has lived up to forty	B2
And see if you find not the Christian creed	R4
Has not in some way gyved his life and bolted	R4
Body or spirit to a wall to make	C2
The man live not by nature but a doctrine	K
Evolved from thought that disregards man's life	F4
But oh this hunger of the mind for answers	K3
And hunger of the heart for life the heart	R4
Thrown to the dogs of thought What shall we do	R4
I see a way have hope
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The blessed Lord	R4
Says ye deluded by unwisdom say	K3
This day is won this purpose gained this wealth
Made mine to morrow safe behold	R4
My enemy is slain I am well born	K
O ye deluded ones slaves of desire	B
Self satisfied and stubborn filled with pride	R4
Power lust and wrath haters of me the gate	R4
Of hell is triple bitter is the womb
In which ye sink deluded birth on birth	I4
These not renouncing But O soul attend	R4
Yield not to impotence shake off your fears	K3
Be steadfast balanced free from hate and anger	B
Balanced in pleasure and pain and active	M3
Yet disregarding action's fruits be friendly	B2
Compassionate forgiving self controlled	R4
Resolute not shrinking from the world	R4
But mixing in its toils as fate may say	K3
Pure expert passionless desire in leash
Renouncing good and evil to friend and foe	O
In fame and ignominy destitute	R4
Of that attachment which disturbs the vision	K
And labor of the soul By these to fix	K3
Eyes undistracted on me the supreme
And Sole Reality And O remember	B
Thou soul thou shalt not sin who workest through	R4
Thy Karma as its nature may command	R4
Strive with thy sin and it shall make the muscles	K3
And strength to take thee to another height	R4
But cleave to the practice of thy soul forever	B
Also to wisdom better still than practice	K3
To meditation better still than wisdom
To renunciation better than meditation	K
Beholding Me in all things in all things	K3
Me who would have you peace of soul attain	K
And soul's perfection	K
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Well I say here lies	K3
Profounder truth and purer than the words	K3
That Jesus spoke Let's take forgiveness	K3
Forgive your enemies he said and bless	K3
Them even that hate you What did Jesus do	R4
Did he forgive the thief upon the cross	K3
Who railed at him He did forgive the hands	K3
Who crucified him but he had a reason	K
They knew not what they did well as for that	R4
Who knows the thing he does Did he forgive	M3
Judas Iscariot Did he forgive	M3
Poor Peter by specific words You see	B2
In instances like these the idealist	R4
Passionate and inexorable who sets up	N
His soul against the world but do you see	B2
The esoteric wisdom which takes note	R4
Of the soul's health just for the sake of health
And leaves the outward recompense alone	K
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Yes what has Jesus done but make a realm
Of outward law and force to strain and bind	R4
The sons of men to this thing and to that	R4
Bring the fanatic and the dogmatist	R4
In every neighborhood in America	B
And radical with axes after trees	K3
And clergymen with curses on the fig trees	K3
And even bring this Kaiser and his dream
Of God's will in him to destroy his foes	K3
And launch the war therefor to make his realm
And Christian culture paramount in time	F
When all the while 'tis clear life does not yield	R4
Proof positive of exoteric things	K3
Why the great truth of life is this I think	C2
The soul has freedom to create its world	R4
Of beauty truth to make the world as truth	J4
Or beauty build philosophies religions	K3
And live by them through them It does not matter	B
Whether they're true the significant thing is this	K3
The soul has freedom to create to take	C2
The void of unintelligible air or thought	R4
The world at large and of it make the food	R4
Impulse and meaning for its life I say	K3
Life is for nothing else truth is not ours	K3
That only ours which we create by which
We live and grow and so we come again	K
By this path of my own to India	B
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What shall we do you ask if business dies	K3
If the western world the world for socialism
Lops off its leaves and branches and the sap
Is thrown back in the trunk unused or if
This light upon the lotus quiets us	K3
And makes us mind entirely Well I say	K3
Men have not lived enjoyed enough before	B
Our strength has gone to get the means for strength
We roll the rock of business up and see	B2
The rock roll down and roll it up again	K
And if the new day does not give us work	C2
In finding what our minds are how to use them	E4
And how to live more beautifully I miss	K3
A guess I often make	C2
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But now to close	K3
Only the blind have failed to see how truly	B2
This Elenor Murray worked her Karma out	R4
And how she put forth strength to cure her weakness	K3
And went her vital way and toiled and died	R4
Peace to all worlds and peace to Elenor Murray	B2
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The coroner had heard that Elenor Murray	B2
Once crossed the Arctic Circle What of that	R4
She traveled it was proved What happened there	B
What hunter after secrets could find out	R4
But on a day the name of Elenor Murray	B2
Is handled by two men who sit and talk	C2
In Fairbanks and the talk is in these words	K3

Edgar Lee Masters

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