From Spoon River Anthologies By Masters

[jmfc]

Cassius Hueffer
THEY have chiseled on my stone the words:
"His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him
That nature might stand up and say to all the world,
This was a man."
Those who knew me smile
As they read this empty rhetoric.
My epitaph should have been:
"Life was not gentle to him,
And the elements so mixed in him
That he made warfare on life

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[delightfulydaft]

We read that book in high school and then acted out some of it. It was a fun one for sure :)