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Let the former need be provided for by honest and righteous history, and as for poets, let the dead bury their dead." ... And yet, after all, man will write poetry, in spite of Mr. Carlyle: nay, beings who are not men, but mere forked radishes, will write it. Man is a poetry-writing animal. Perhaps he was meant to be one. At all events, he can no more be kept from it than from eating.
I believe a man and wife ought to belong to the same church, 'thy God shall be my God' and I wasn't goin' to give up what I'd been taught for any crazy notions Doc had got into his head. I told him so, plain. "Then Doc took a poetry-writing spell, but he wasn't no great hand at it. I told him in plain words he would be better off rollin' allopathy pills.
'What a sell it would have been for me to find you chummy with a stupid, poetry-writing, good-for- nothing girl like that, instead of my jolly old Mice! And at that minute all Dolly's slights were fully compensated for! There was a lurking purpose in the boys' minds that if Dolores would not join in fun, yet still fun should be extracted from her.
Then there was being "washed in the blood of the lamb," which was considerably simpler except for the matter of its making one "whiter than snow." He was doubtful of this result, unless it was only poetry-writing which doesn't mean everything it says. He meant to try this sometime, when he could get a lamb, both as a means of grace and as a desirable experiment.
What we want is truth. Of the former we have enough in all conscience just now. Let the latter need be provided for by honest and righteous history, and as for poets, let the dead bury their dead." And yet, after all, man will write poetry, in spite of Mr. Carlyle: nay, beings who are not men, but mere forked radishes, will write it. Man is a poetry-writing animal. Perhaps he was meant to be one.
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