<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373796" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Granville Calhoun</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to be County Judge<br>One more term, so as to round out a service<br>Of thirty years.<br>But my friends left me and joined my enemies,<br>And they elected a new man.<br>Then a spirit of revenge seized me,<br>And I infected my four sons with it,<br>And I brooded upon retaliation,<br>Until the great physician, Nature,<br>Smote me through with paralysis<br>To give my soul and body a rest.<br>Did my sons get power and money?<br>Did they serve the people or yoke them,<br>To till and harvest fields of self?<br>For how could they ever forget<br>My face at my bed-room window,<br>Sitting helpless amid my golden cages<br>Of singing canaries,<br>Looking at the old court-house?</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=373796" data-title="Granville Calhoun de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I wanted to be County Judge One more term, so as to round out a service Of thirty years. But my friends left me and joined my enemies, And they elected a new man. Then a spirit of revenge seized me, And I infected my four sons with it, And I brood..."></div> </div> </div>

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