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Best Famous Wiley Poems

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Yee Bow

 They got me into the Sunday-school
In Spoon River
And tried to get me to drop Confucius for Jesus.
I could have been no worse off If I had tried to get them to drop Jesus for Confucius.
For, without any warning, as if it were a prank, And sneaking up behind me, Harry Wiley, The minister's son, caved my ribs into my lungs, With a blow of his fist.
Now I shall never sleep with my ancestors in Pekin, And no children shall worship at my grave.


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Mrs. Charles Bliss

 Reverend Wiley advised me not to divorce him
For the sake of the children,
And Judge Somers advised him the same.
So we stuck to the end of the path.
But two of the children thought he was right, And two of the children thought I was right.
And the two who sided with him blamed me, And the two who sided with me blamed him, And they grieved for the one they sided with.
And all were torn with the guilt of judging, And tortured in soul because they could not admire Equally him and me.
Now every gardener knows that plants grown in cellars Or under stones are twisted and yellow and weak.
And no mother would let her baby suck Diseased milk from her breast.
Yet preachers and judges advise the raising of souls Where there is no sunlight, but only twilight, No warmth, but only dampness and cold -- Preachers and judges!
Written by Edgar Lee Masters | Create an image from this poem

Rev. Lemuel Wiley

 I preached four thousand sermons,
I conducted forty revivals,
And baptized many converts.
Yet no deed of mine Shines brighter in the memory of the world, And none is treasured more by me: Look how I saved the Blisses from divorce, And kept the children free from that disgrace, To grow up into moral men and women, Happy themselves, a credit to the village.

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