Reuben
Bright
By: Edwin Arlington Robinson
Because he was a butcher and thereby
Did earn an honest living (and did
right),
I would not have you think that Reuben
Bright
Was any more a brute than you or I;
For when they told him that his wife
must die,
He stared at them, and shook with grief
and fright,
And cried like a great baby half that
night,
And made the women cry to see him cry.
And after she was dead, and he had paid
The singers and the sexton and the
rest,
He packed a lot of things that she had
made
Most mournfully away in an old chest
Of hers, and put some chopped-up cedar
boughs
In with them, and tore down the
slaughter-house.
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