Edward Sanford Martin Poems

Submit to pressure from your peers and you move down to their level.
Speak up for your own beliefs and you invite them up to your level.
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A PUBLIC haunt they found her in:
She lay asleep, a lovely child;
The only thing left undefiled
Where all things else bore taint of sin.
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TO put new shingles on old roofs;
To give old women wadded skirts;
To treat premonitory coughs
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WITHOUT him still this whirling earth
Might spin its course around the sun,
And death still dog the heels of birth,
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