<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373840" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John Horace Burleson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I won the prize essay at school <br>Here in the village, <br>And published a novel before I was twenty-five. <br>I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art; <br>There married the banker’s daughter, <br>And later became president of the bank— <br>Always looking forward to some leisure <br>To write an epic novel of the war. <br>Meanwhile friend of the great, and lover of letters, <br>And host to Matthew Arnold and to Emerson. <br>An after dinner speaker, writing essays <br>For local clubs. At last brought here— <br>My boyhood home, you know— <br>Not even a little tablet in Chicago <br>To keep my name alive. <br>How great it is to write the single line: <br>“Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll!”</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=373840" data-title="John Horace Burleson de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I won the prize essay at school Here in the village, And published a novel before I was twenty-five. I went to the city for themes and to enrich my art; There married the banker’s daughter, And later became president of the bank— Always ..."></div> </div> </div>

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