<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373927" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Silas Dement</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled<br>With new-fallen frost.<br>It was midnight and not a soul abroad.<br>Out of the chimney of the court-house<br>A gray-hound of smoke leapt and chased<br>The northwest wind.<br>I carried a ladder to the landing of the stairs<br>And leaned it against the frame of the trap-door<br>In the ceiling of the portico,<br>And I crawled under the roof and amid the rafters<br>And flung among the seasoned timbers<br>A lighted handful of oil-soaked waste.<br>Then I came down and slunk away.<br>In a little while the fire-bell rang --<br>Clang! Clang! Clang!<br>And the Spoon River ladder company<br>Came with a dozen buckets and began to pour water<br>On the glorious bon-fire, growing hotter,<br>Higher and brighter, till the walls fell in,<br>And the limestone columns where Lincoln stood<br>Crashed like trees when the woodman fells them...<br>When I came back from Joliet<br>There was a new court house with a dome.<br>For I was punished like all who destroy<br>The past for the sake of the future.</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=373927" data-title="Silas Dement de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="It was moon-light, and the earth sparkled With new-fallen frost. It was midnight and not a soul abroad. Out of the chimney of the court-house A gray-hound of smoke leapt and chased The northwest wind. I carried a ladder to the landing of the stair..."></div> </div> </div>

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