<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373814" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Hildrup Tubbs</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I made two fights for the people.<br>First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon<br>Of independence, for reform, and was defeated.<br>Next I used my rebel strength<br>To capture the standard of my old party --<br>And I captured it, but I was defeated.<br>Discredited and discarded, misanthropical,<br>I turned to the solace of gold<br>And I used my remnant of power<br>To fasten myself like a saprophyte<br>Upon the putrescent carcass<br>Of Thomas Rhodes' bankrupt bank,<br>As assignee of the fund.<br>Everyone now turned from me.<br>My hair grew white,<br>My purple lusts grew gray,<br>Tobacco and whisky lost their savor<br>And for years Death ignored me<br>As he does a hog.</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=373814" data-title="Hildrup Tubbs de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing the gonfalon Of independence, for reform, and was defeated. Next I used my rebel strength To capture the standard of my old party -- And I captured it, but I was defeated. Discredite..."></div> </div> </div>

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