<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373780" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ezra Bartlett</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A chaplain in the army,<br>A chaplain in the prisons,<br>An exhorter in Spoon River,<br>Drunk with divinity, Spoon River --<br>Yet bringing poor Eliza Johnson to shame,<br>And myself to scorn and wretchedness.<br>But why will you never see that love of women,<br>And even love of wine,<br>Are the stimulants by which the soul, hungering for divinity,<br>Reaches the ecstatic vision<br>And sees the celestial outposts?<br>Only after many trials for strength,<br>Only when all stimulants fail,<br>Does the aspiring soul<br>By its own sheer power<br>Find the divine<br>By resting upon itself.</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=373780" data-title="Ezra Bartlett de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="A chaplain in the army, A chaplain in the prisons, An exhorter in Spoon River, Drunk with divinity, Spoon River -- Yet bringing poor Eliza Johnson to shame, And myself to scorn and wretchedness. But why will you never see that love of women, And e..."></div> </div> </div>

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