{"id":871,"date":"2022-02-06T14:17:27","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T14:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/?page_id=871"},"modified":"2022-02-06T15:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:24:13","slug":"oaks-tutt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/oaks-tutt\/","title":{"rendered":"Oaks Tutt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-24-AI.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-16\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-24-AI.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My mother was for woman\u2019s rights<br \/>\nAnd my father was the rich miller at London Mills.<br \/>\nI dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them.<br \/>\nWhen my father died, I set out to see peoples and countries<br \/>\nIn order to learn how to reform the world.<br \/>\nI traveled through many lands. I saw the ruins of Rome<br \/>\nAnd the ruins of Athens, And the ruins of Thebes.<br \/>\nAnd I sat by moonlight amid the necropolis of Memphis.<br \/>\nThere I was caught up by wings of flame,<br \/>\nAnd a voice from heaven said to me:<br \/>\n\u201cInjustice, Untruth destroyed them.<br \/>\nGo forth Preach Justice! Preach Truth!\u201d<br \/>\nAnd I hastened back to Spoon River<br \/>\nTo say farewell to my mother before beginning my work.<br \/>\nThey all saw a strange light in my eye.<br \/>\nAnd by and by, when I talked, they discovered<br \/>\nWhat had come in my mind.<br \/>\nThen <a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/jonathan-swift-somers\/\">Jonathan Swift Somers<\/a> challenged me to debate<br \/>\nThe subject, (I taking the negative):<br \/>\n\u201cPontius Pilate, the Greatest Philosopher of the World.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd he won the debate by saying at last,<br \/>\n\u201cBefore you reform the world, Mr. Tutt<br \/>\nPlease answer the question of Pontius Pilate:<br \/>\n\u201cWhat is Truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-38-AI.svg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7\" role=\"img\" src=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/01\/Pages-from-Spoon_River_Anthology-38-AI.svg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/abel-melveny\/\">Previous: Abel Melveny<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pvdpoetry.com\/spoonriveranthology\/spoon-river-anthology\/elliott-hawkins\/\">Next: Elliott Hawkins<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother was for woman\u2019s rights And my father was the rich miller at London Mills. I dreamed of the wrongs of the world and wanted to right them. When my father died, I set out to see peoples and countries In order to learn how to reform the world. I traveled through many lands. 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