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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ELMER BARR, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: What but the love of god could have softened
Last Line: Repent, ye living ones, and rest with jesus.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency
First Line: What but the love of god could have softened
Last Line: Repent, ye living ones, and rest with jesus.
Subject(s): Forgiveness; Clemency
WHAT but the love of God could have softened
And made forgiving the people of Spoon River
Toward me who wronged the bed of Thomas Merritt
And murdered him beside?
Oh, loving hearts that took me in again
When I returned from fourteen years in prison!
Oh, helping hands that in the church received me,
And heard with tears my penitent confession,
Who took the sacrament of bread and wine!
Repent, ye living ones, and rest with Jesus.
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