English Poetry. Edgar Lee Masters. Deacon Taylor. Эдгар Ли Мастерс.

Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс)

Deacon Taylor

I belonged to the church,
And to the party of prohibition;
And the villagers thought I died of eating watermelon.
In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver,
For every noon for thirty years,
I slipped behind the prescription partition
In Trainor’s drug store
And poured a generous drink
From the bottle marked
”Spiritus frumenti.”

Edgar Lee Masters’s other poems:

1. Ernest Hyde
2. Mrs. Kessler
3. Dippold the Optician
4. Elmer Karr
5. Schroeder the Fisherman

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