Jeduthan Hawley by Edgar Lee Masters — Read

There would be a knock at the door / And I would arise at midnight and go to the shop, / Where belated travelers would hear me hammering / Sepulchral boards and tacking satin.

And often I wondered who would go with me / To the distant land, our names the theme / For talk, in the same week, for I've observed / Two always go together.

Chase Henry was paired with Edith Conant;

And Jonathan Somers with Willie Metcalf;

And Editor Hamblin with Francis Turner, / When he prayed to live longer than Editor Whedon;

And Thomas Rhodes with widow McFarlane;

And Emily Sparks with Barry Holden;

And Oscar Hummel with Davis Matlock;

And Editor Whedon with Fiddler Jones;

And Faith Matheny with Dorcas Gustine.

And I, the solemnest man in town, / Stepped off with Daisy Fraser.