<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373833" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jefferson Howard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My valiant fight! For I call it valiant,<br>With my father's beliefs from old Virginia:<br>Hating slavery, but no less war.<br>I, full of spirit, audacity, courage<br>Thrown into life here in Spoon River,<br>With its dominant forces drawn from New England,<br>Republicans, Calvinists, merchants, bankers,<br>Hating me, yet fearing my arm.<br>With wife and children heavy to carry --<br>Yet fruits of my very zest of life.<br>Stealing odd pleasures that cost me prestige,<br>And reaping evils I had not sown;<br>Foe of the church with its charnel dankness,<br>Friend of the human touch of the tavern;<br>Tangled with fates all alien to me,<br>Deserted by hands I called my own.<br>Then just as I felt my giant strength<br>Short of breath, behold my children<br>Had wound their lives in stranger gardens --<br>And I stood alone, as I started alone!<br>My valiant life! I died on my feet,<br>Facing the silence -- facing the prospect<br>That no one would know of the fight I made.</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=373833" data-title="Jefferson Howard de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="My valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father's beliefs from old Virginia: Hating slavery, but no less war. I, full of spirit, audacity, courage Thrown into life here in Spoon River, With its dominant forces drawn from New England, Repub..."></div> </div> </div>

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