The old faiths light their candles all about, But burly Truth comes by and puts them out.

During the 1920s Lizette Woodworth Reese became a prominent literary figure receiving critical praise and recognition in particular from H. She has been cited as an influence on younger women poets and has been compared to Emily Dickinson. L.

Born in the Waverly section of Baltimore Maryland Lizette Woodworth Reese was a school teacher from 1873 to 1918. L. Mencken himself from Baltimore.