Lydia Puckett

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Title:     Lydia Puckett
Author: Edgar Lee Masters [More Titles by Masters]

KNOWLT HOHEIMER ran away to the war
The day before Curl Trenary
Swore out a warrant through Justice Arnett
For stealing hogs.
But that's not the reason he turned a soldier.
He caught me running with Lucius Atherton.
We quarreled and I told him never again
To cross my path.
Then he stole the hogs and went to the war--
Back of every soldier is a woman.

[The end]
Edgar Lee Masters's poem: Lydia Puckett

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