<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373771" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Elliott Hawkins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I looked like Abraham Lincoln.<br>I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,<br>But standing for the rights of property and for order.<br>A regular church attendant,<br>Sometimes appearing in your town meetings to warn you<br>Against the evils of discontent and envy,<br>And to denounce those who tried to destroy the Union,<br>And to point to the peril of the Knights of Labor.<br>My success and my example are inevitable influences<br>In your young men and in generations to come,<br>In spite of attacks of newspapers like the Clarion;<br>A regular visitor at Springfield,<br>When the Legislature was in session,<br>To prevent raids upon the railroads,<br>And the men building up the state.<br>Trusted by them and by you, Spoon River, equally<br>In spite of the whispers that I was a lobbyist.<br>Moving quietly through the world, rich and courted.<br>Dying at last, of course, but lying here<br>Under a stone with an open book carved upon it<br>And the words &quot;Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.&quot;<br>And now, you world-savers, who reaped nothing in life<br>And in death have neither stones nor epitaphs,<br>How do you like your silence from mouths stopped<br>With the dust of my triumphant career?</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=373771" data-title="Elliott Hawkins de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I looked like Abraham Lincoln. I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship, But standing for the rights of property and for order. A regular church attendant, Sometimes appearing in your town meetings to warn you Against the evils of disconte..."></div> </div> </div>

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