<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373723" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Amos Sibley</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not character, not fortitude, not patience<br>Were mine, the which the village thought I had<br>In bearing with my wife, while preaching on,<br>Doing the work God chose for me.<br>I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton.<br>I knew of her adulteries, every one.<br>But even so, if I divorced the woman<br>I must forsake the ministry.<br>Therefore to do God's work and have it crop,<br>I bore with her!<br>So lied I to myself!<br>So lied I to Spoon River!<br>Yet I tried lecturing, ran for the legislature,<br>Canvassed for books, with just the thought in mind:<br>If I make money thus, I will divorce her.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edgar+Lee+Masters">Edgar Lee Masters</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373723" data-title="Amos Sibley de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Not character, not fortitude, not patience Were mine, the which the village thought I had In bearing with my wife, while preaching on, Doing the work God chose for me. I loathed her as a termagant, as a wanton. I knew of her adulteries, every one...."></div> </div> </div>

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