<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373861" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lucinda Matlock</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I went to the dances at Chandlerville, <br>And played snap-out at Winchester. <br>One time we changed partners, <br>Driving home in the midnight of middle June, <br>And then I found Davis. <br>We were married and lived together for seventy years, <br>Enjoying, working, raising the twelve children, <br>Eight of whom we lost <br>Ere I had reached the age of sixty. <br>I spun, I wove, I kept the house, I nursed the sick, <br>I made the garden, and for holiday <br>Rambled over the fields where sang the larks, <br>And by Spoon River gathering many a shell, <br>And many a flower and medicinal weed-- <br>Shouting to the wooded hills, singing to the green valleys. <br>At ninety-six I had lived enough, that is all, <br>And passed to a sweet repose. <br>What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness, <br>Anger, discontent and drooping hopes? <br>Degenerate sons and daughters, <br>Life is too strong for you-- <br>It takes life to love Life.</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=373861" data-title="Lucinda Matlock de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="I went to the dances at Chandlerville, And played snap-out at Winchester. One time we changed partners, Driving home in the midnight of middle June, And then I found Davis. We were married and lived together for seventy years, Enjoying, work..."></div> </div> </div>

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