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JOSEPH A. HOWELLS by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS

First Line: STONE, UPON WHICH WITH HANDS OF BOY AND MAN
Last Line: THERE NEEDS NO ROOM FOR BLAME: BLAME THERE WAS NONE.
Subject(s): BROTHERS; PRAISE; HALF-BROTHERS;

Stone, upon which with hands of boy and man
He framed the history of his time until,
Week after week the varying record ran
To its half-centuried tale of well and ill.

Remember now how true through all those days
He was: friend, brother, husband, father, son;
Fill the whole limit of your space with praise;
There needs no room for blame: blame there was none.



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