Poem by Edgar Lee Masters

Rev. Lemuel Wiley

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.

1. Hare Drummer
2. Mrs. Benjamin Painter
3. Franklin Jones
4. Columbus Cheney
5. Hon. Henry Bennett

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