Your Dollar is your only Word, <br> The wrath of it your only fear. <br> You build it … - Edwin Arlington Robinson

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I want more out of life than I've gotten.

Edwin Arlington Robinson

Your Dollar is your only Word,
The wrath of it your only fear.
You build it altars tall enough
To make you see, but your are blind;
You cannot leave it long enough
To look before you or behind.

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And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

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I shall have more to say when I am dead.

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Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of discontent, Clipping the same sad alnage of the years.

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