The hand which wrote "Goodbye, Jim"--not classical
in either Greek or Roman sense, yet a great
American Classic--with its pungent odor of Blue Jeans, with
its clean, sweet, clear-cut, fine smell, of its native soil--
that hand may never again hold the Pen; the man
himself, may crumble--God forbid!--back into the Dust--
that "Little Dust of Harm"--out of which he came;
but his Poems will not, cannot die.
When those other Writers will have been forgotten;
when even the gifted Maker of "Ben Hur" will be, but
as an empty name; even then, this Poet,
and his Poems, will cleave to the Mind, cling to the
Heart, of countless Generations, not yet born!
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Whatever Is--Is Best
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