Cassius Hueffer

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Title:     Cassius Hueffer
Author: Edgar Lee Masters [More Titles by Masters]

THEY have chiseled on my stone the words:
"His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man."
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have been:
"Life was not gentle to him,
And the elements so mixed in him
That he made warfare on life
In the which he was slain."
While I lived I could not cope with slanderous tongues,
Now that I am dead I must submit to an epitaph
Graven by a fool!

[The end]
Edgar Lee Masters's poem: Cassius Hueffer

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