Knowlt Hoheimer

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Title:     Knowlt Hoheimer
Author: Edgar Lee Masters [More Titles by Masters]

I WAS the first fruits of the battle of Missionary Ridge.
When I felt the bullet enter my heart
I wished I had staid at home and gone to jail
For stealing the hogs of Curl Trenary,
Instead of running away and joining the army.
Rather a thousand times the county jail
Than to lie under this marble figure with wings,
And this granite pedestal Bearing the words, "Pro Patria."
What do they mean, anyway?

[The end]
Edgar Lee Masters's poem: Knowlt Hoheimer

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