Poem by Edgar Lee Masters

Frank Drummer

Out of a cell into this darkened space --
The end at twenty-five!
My tongue could not speak what stirred within me,
And the village thought me a fool.
Yet at the start there was a clear vision,
A high and urgent purpose in my soul
Which drove me on trying to memorize
The Encyclopedia Britannica!

1. O Glorious France
2. Robert Davidson
3. Caroline Branson
4. Josiah Tompkins
5. E.C. Culbertson

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