Edgar Lee Masters (Эдгар Ли Мастерс)

Thomas Rhodes


Very well, you liberals,
And navigators into realms intellectual,
You sailors through heights imaginative,
Blown about by erratic currents, tumbling into air pockets,
You Margaret Fuller Slacks, Petits,
And Tennessee Claflin Shopes --
You found with all your boasted wisdom
How hard at the last it is
To keep the soul from splitting into cellular atoms.
While we, seekers of earth’s treasures,
Getters and hoarders of gold,
Are self-contained, compact, harmonized,
Even to the end.

Edgar Lee Masters’s other poems:

  1. Clarence Darrow
  2. Ernest Hyde
  3. Mrs. Kessler
  4. Dippold the Optician
  5. Voltaire Johnson

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