<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373848" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Josiah Tompkins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was well known and much beloved <br>And rich, as fortunes are reckoned <br>In Spoon River, where I had lived and worked. <br>That was the home for me, <br>Though all my children had flown afar— <br>Which is the way of Nature—all but one. <br>The boy, who was the baby, stayed at home, <br>To be my help in my failing years <br>And the solace of his mother. <br>But I grew weaker, as he grew stronger, <br>And he quarreled with me about the business, <br>And his wife said I was a hindrance to it; <br>And he won his mother to see as he did, <br>Till they tore me up to be transplanted <br>With them to her girlhood home in Missouri. <br>And so much of my fortune was gone at last, <br>Though I made the will just as he drew it, <br>He profited little by it.</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=373848" data-title="Josiah Tompkins de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I was well known and much beloved And rich, as fortunes are reckoned In Spoon River, where I had lived and worked. That was the home for me, Though all my children had flown afar— Which is the way of Nature—all but one. The boy, who was ..."></div> </div> </div>

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