<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373916" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rutherford McDowell</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">They brought me ambrotypes <br>Of the old pioneers to enlarge. <br>And sometimes one sat for me— <br>Some one who was in being <br>When giant hands from the womb of the world <br>Tore the republic. <br>What was it in their eyes?— <br>For I could never fathom <br>That mystical pathos of drooped eyelids, <br>And the serene sorrow of their eyes. <br>It was like a pool of water, <br>Amid oak trees at the edge of a forest, <br>Where the leaves fall, <br>As you hear the crow of a cock <br>From a far-off farm house, seen near the hills <br>Where the third generation lives, and the strong men <br>And the strong women are gone and forgotten. <br>And these grand-children and great grand-children <br>Of the pioneers! <br>Truly did my camera record their faces, too, <br>With so much of the old strength gone, <br>And the old faith gone, <br>And the old mastery of life gone, <br>And the old courage gone, <br>Which labors and loves and suffers and sings <br>Under the sun!</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=373916" data-title="Rutherford McDowell de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="They brought me ambrotypes Of the old pioneers to enlarge. And sometimes one sat for me— Some one who was in being When giant hands from the womb of the world Tore the republic. What was it in their eyes?— For I could never fathom That..."></div> </div> </div>

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