Death & Dying
Rev. Lemuel Wiley
From Spoon River Anthology (1916)
Death & Dying
I preached four thousand sermons,
I conducted forty revivals,
And baptized many converts.
Yet no deed of mine
Shines brighter in the memory of the world,
And none is treasured more by me:
Look how I saved the Blisses from divorce,
And kept the children free from that disgrace,
To grow up into moral men and women,
Happy themselves, a credit to the village.
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “Rev. Lemuel Wiley.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/89/.
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Masters, Edgar Lee. “Rev. Lemuel Wiley.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/masters/89/.
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