#Americans
“What will you do when you come to… If all your life long you have rej… And know as you lie there, He is… Over and over I said, I, the revi… Ah, yes! but there are friends and…
The Prohibitionists made me Town… When the saloons were voted out, Because when I was a drinking man… Before I joined the church, I kil… At the saw-mill near Maple Grove.
Here I lie close to the grave Of Old Bill Piersol, Who grew rich trading with the ind… Afterwards took the bankrupt law And emergeed from it richer than e…
It was only a little house of two… Almost like a child’s play-house— With scarce five acres of ground a… And I had so many children to fee… And school and clothe, and a wife…
I made two fights for the people. First I left my party, bearing th… Of independence, for reform, and w… Next I used my rebel strength To capture the standard of my old…
Both for the country and for the m… And for a country as well as a man… ’Tis better to be feared than love… And if this country would rather p… With the friendship of every natio…
I have two monuments besides this… One, the house I built on the hil… With its spires, bay windows, and… The other, the lake-front in Chic… Where the railroad keeps a switchi…
Your red blossoms amid green leave… Are drooping, beautiful geranium! But you do not ask for water. You cannot speak! You do not need… Everyone knows that you are dying…
It never came into my mind Until I was ready to die That Jenny had loved me to death,… For I was seventy, she was thirty… And I wore myself to a shadow try…
I was the Sunday school superinte… The dummy president of the wagon w… And the canning factory, Acting for Thomas Rhodes and the… My son the cashier of the bank,
Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, T… The weak of will, the strong of ar… All, all, are sleeping on the hill… One passed in a fever, One was burned in a mine,
I reached the highest place in Sp… But through what bitterness of spi… The face of my father, sitting spe… Child-like, watching his canaries, And looking at the court-house win…
I tried to win the nomination For president of the County-board And I made speeches all over the… Denouncing Solomon Purple, my riv… As an enemy of the people,
Rich, honored by my fellow citizen… The father of many children, born… All raised there In the great mansion-house, at the… Note the cedar tree on the lawn!
We stand about this place—we, the… And shade our eyes because we drea… “June 17th, 1884, aged 21 years an… And all things are changed. And we—we, the memories, stand her…
