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To this generation I would say:
Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty.
It may serve a turn in your life.
My husband had nothing to do / With the fall of the bank -- he was only cashier.
The wreck was due to the president, Thomas Rhodes, / And his vain, unscrupulous son.
Yet my husband was sent to prison, / And I was left with the children, / To feed and clothe and school them.
And I did it, and sent them forth / Into the world all clean and strong, / And all through the wisdom of Pope, the poet:
"Act well your part, there all the honor lies. "