<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373817" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Homer Clapp</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Often Aner Clute at the gate<br>Refused me the parting kiss,<br>Saying we should be engaged before that;<br>And just with a distant clasp of the hand<br>She bade me good-night, as I brought her home<br>From the skating rink or the revival.<br>No sooner did my departing footsteps die away<br>Than Lucius Atherton,<br>(So I learned when Aner went to Peoria)<br>Stole in at her window, or took her riding<br>Behind his spanking team of bays<br>Into the country.<br>The shock of it made me settle down,<br>And I put all the money I got from my father's estate<br>Into the canning factory, to get the job<br>Of head accountant, and lost it all.<br>And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,<br>Whom only death would treat as the equal<br>Of other men, making me feel like a man.</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=373817" data-title="Homer Clapp de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Often Aner Clute at the gate Refused me the parting kiss, Saying we should be engaged before that; And just with a distant clasp of the hand She bade me good-night, as I brought her home From the skating rink or the revival. No sooner did my depar..."></div> </div> </div>

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