<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373924" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sersmith the Dentist</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do you think that odes and sermons,<br>And the ringing of church bells,<br>And the blood of old men and young men,<br>Martyred for the truth they saw<br>With eyes made bright by faith in God,<br>Accomplished the world's great reformations?<br>Do you think that the Battle Hymn of the Republic<br>Would have been heard if the chattel slave<br>Had crowned the dominant dollar,<br>In spite of Whitney's cotton gin,<br>And steam and rolling mills and iron<br>And telegraphs and white free labor?<br>Do you think that Daisy Fraser<br>Had been put out and driven out<br>If the canning works had never needed<br>Her little house and lot?<br>Or do you think the poker room<br>Of Johnnie Taylor, and Burchard's bar<br>Had been closed up if the money lost<br>And spent for beer had not been turned,<br>By closing them, to Thomas Rhodes<br>For larger sales of shoes and blankets,<br>And children's cloaks and gold-oak cradles?<br>Why, a moral truth is a hollow tooth<br>Which must be propped with gold.</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=373924" data-title="Sersmith the Dentist de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="Do you think that odes and sermons, And the ringing of church bells, And the blood of old men and young men, Martyred for the truth they saw With eyes made bright by faith in God, Accomplished the world's great reformations? Do you think that the ..."></div> </div> </div>

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