The Mastodon

The Mastodon
I am the Mastodon, I am the Mastodon,
I am the shadow of ages long gone.
I am the thunder, the earthquake, the roar,
I am the terror that shakes to the core.
I am the bones in the earth, I am the dust,
I am the memory, the slumber, the rust.
I am the shadow of ages long gone,
I am the Mastodon, I am the Mastodon.

About Edgar Lee Masters

Edgar Lee Masters was an American attorney, poet, biographer, and dramatist. He is the author of Spoon River Anthology (1915), The New Star Chamber and Other Essays, Songs and Satires, The Great Valley, The Serpent in the Wilderness, An Obscure Tale, The Spleen, Mark Twain: A Portrait, Lincoln: The Man, and Illinois Poems. In all, Masters published twelve plays, twenty-one books of poetry, six novels and six biographies, including those of Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Vachel Lindsay, and Walt Whitman.

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