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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=420224" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>the Eternal Question</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">THE ETERNAL QUESTION</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She was just a child, really, <br>A girl of sixteen, <br>when Stanford White took her<br>in a champagne fueled dream.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White was an architect of great renown, <br>He had designed the Garden at Madison Square.<br>He had designs on this chorus girl now, <br>whose raven haired beauty drew many men’s stares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He had dined her and wined her<br>They had toasts with Champagne<br>On a red velvet swing<br>In his quarters they played.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In a room full of mirrors<br>A virgin lay down<br>When she awoke the next morning<br>No virgin was found.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was Evelyn Nesbit’s fate<br>To be seen as a pawn or a prize.<br>Harry Thaw sought her in marriage<br> To take her from a man he despised.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stanford White was wealthy, urbane, <br>and had his pick of life’s pleasures<br>Harry K Thaw was a wastrel and strange, <br>living off of his Father’s massed treasures.<br>White and Thaw had competed<br>for Evelyn’s affections.<br>White won, then soon lost interest.<br>Poor Evelyn lost his protection.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Thaw was an addict and deviant<br>He injected himself with cocaine.<br>He enjoyed whipping girls and sometimes young boys<br>with his riding whip or his cane.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>He’d pursued Evelyn Nesbit for years<br>She’d denied all of his advances<br>Then her forced her and whipped her and beat her<br>It was one of life’s stranger romances.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He soon learned that the girl he had married<br>was no demure and virginal bride.<br>He learned that his rival, Stanford White<br>had, once more, plucked his pride.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harry Thaw was then possessed<br>by a paranoid Jealous rage<br>Stanford White was a dead man<br>if it could be arranged.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thaw, that summer, found his chance <br>At the roof Garden of Madison Square<br>Stanford White was in attendance<br>Thaw and Nesbitt were also there.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thaw wore a long black overcoat<br>Strange dress for a day in June<br>The chorus girls were singing out<br>when three shots disturbed the tune.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Harry Thaw had murdered White: <br>three shots at point blank range.<br>The crowd, in shock, did nothing<br>as the murderer fled the stage.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Harry Thaw was placed on trial.<br>The Trial of the century<br>His lawyers built a strong defense<br> Based on an insanity plea...<br>In exchange for a promised divorce<br>And a specified sum of cash<br>Evelyn Nesbit was persuaded<br>to testify on Thaw’s behalf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She told of the red velvet Swing<br>and about the mirrored room.<br>The Jury ruled insanity<br>Harry Thaw would be free soon.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">After the Divorce, Thaw cut her off.<br>No cash was ever paid<br>She went on to a brief career<br>in movies and on stage..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thaw died of a heart attack<br>In Nineteen Forty Nine.<br>Evelyn died in a Nursing Home<br>in Ronald Reagan’s time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">White’s Square Garden was demolished<br>Now moved to Seventh Avenue<br>It’s in its fourth incarnation<br>as the World’s most famous venue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In the forum of the Garden<br>A golden Statute is in place.<br>With the body of a huntress<br>But with Evelyn Nesbit’s face</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+F.+McCullagh">John F. McCullagh</a><div class=q>
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She was just a child, really, 
A girl of sixteen, 
when Stanford White took her
in a champagne fueled dream.

White was an architect of great renown, 
He had designed the Garden at Madison Square.
He had designs on this choru..."></div>
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