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Reuben Bright

Because he was a butcher and thereby    Did earn an honest living (and did right),    I would not have you think that Reuben Bright   Was any more a brute than you or I;    For when they told him that his wife must die,    He stared at them, and shook with grief and fright,    And cried like a great baby half that night,    And made the women cry to see him cry.   And after she was dead, and he had paid  The singers and the sexton and the rest,   He packed a lot of things that she had made  Most mournfully away in an old chest  Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar boughs  In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house.

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Form: sonnet (abbaabbacdcdee.10. sexton: church bell ringer and grave digger.

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Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson (December 22, 1869 – April 6, 1935) was an American poet. Robinson won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on three occasions…

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