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    Will Carleton

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    But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #fate #gold #i #i have learned #key

    Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #beetle #drought #each #fall #farmer

    I've watched my duty, straight an' true, an' tried to do it well; Part of the time kept heaven in view, An' part steered clear of hell. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #duty #heaven #hell #i #kept

    If there's a heaven upon the earth, a fellow knows it when He's been away from home a week, and then gets back again. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #away #back #been #earth #fellow

    Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of the Dead. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #band #country #dead #happy #heroes

    Things at home are crossways, and Betsy and I are out. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #i #out #things

    To appreciate heaven well, it's good for a person to have some fifteen minutes of hell. ↗


    — Will Carleton

    #fifteen #fifteen minutes #good #heaven #hell






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    He had been in the habit of writing poetry as a youngster. Rifts in the Cloud (1869)
    Poems (1871)
    Betsy and I Are Out (1871)
    Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872)
    Farm Ballads (1873)
    Farm Legends (1875)
    Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes (1876)
    Our Travelled Parson (1879)
    Farm Festivals (1881)
    The First Settler's Story (1881)
    Her Tour (1882)
    The Old Reading Class (1883)
    The Hero Of the Tower (1884)
    City Ballads (1885)
    The Convict's Christmas Eve (1887)
    An Ancient Spell (1887)
    City Festivals (1892)
    The Vestal Virgin (1893)
    Four Dogs (1894)
    Rhymes of Our Planet (1895)
    The Lianhan Shee (1900)
    Out of the Old House Nancy (1900)
    Songs of Two Centuries (1902)
    The Little Black-Eyed Rebel (1906)
    A Thousand Thoughts with Index of Subjects (1908)


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    Author and Book Info. His first significant work publiWill Carletond was Betsy and I Are Out a poignant tale of a divorce which was first publiWill Carletond in the Toledo Blade but then reprinted by Harper’s Weekly.

    Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life.

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