<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=373933" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Town Marshal</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal<br>When the saloons were voted out,<br>Because when I was a drinking man,<br>Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede<br>At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.<br>And they wanted a terrible man,<br>Grim, righteous, strong, courageous,<br>And a hater of saloons and drinkers,<br>To keep law and order in the village.<br>And they presented me with a loaded cane<br>With which I struck Jack McGuire<br>Before he drew the gun with which he killed me.<br>The Prohibitionists spent their money in vain<br>To hang him, for in a dream<br>I appeared to one of the twelve jurymen<br>And told him the whole secret story.<br>Fourteen years were enough for killing me.</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=373933" data-title="The Town Marshal de Edgar Lee Masters" data-description="The Prohibitionists made me Town Marshal When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man, Before I joined the church, I killed a Swede At the saw-mill near Maple Grove. And they wanted a terrible man, Grim, righteous, strong, co..."></div> </div> </div>

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