Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon River Anthology - Hannah Armstrong

Spoon River Anthology - Hannah Armstrong (Angol)

  I wrote him a letter asking him for old times, sake

  To discharge my sick boy from the army;

  But maybe he couldn't read it.

  Then I went to town and had James Garber,

  Who wrote beautifully, write him a letter.

  But maybe that was lost in the mails.

  So I traveled all the way to Washington.

  I was more than an hour finding the White House.

  And when I found it they turned me away,

  Hiding their smiles.

  Then I thought: "Oh, well, he ain't the same as when

  I boarded him

  And he and my husband worked together

  And all of us called him Abe, there in Menard."

  As a last attempt I turned to a guard and said:

  "Please say it's old Aunt Hannah Armstrong

  From Illinois, come to see him about her sick boy

  In the army."

  Well, just in a moment they let me in!

  And when he saw me he broke in a laugh,

  And dropped his business as president,

  And wrote in his own hand Doug's discharge,

  Talking the while of the early days,

  And telling stories.

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