A. D. Blood

By Edgar Lee Masters

IF YOU in the village think that my work was a good one,

Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards,

And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett,

In many a crusade to purge the people of sin;

Why do you let the milliner's daughter Dora,

And the worthless son of Benjamin Pantier

Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow?