Edward+Lewis+poems

Blake Reno Which is Mightier, the Pen or the Sword?  The Pantagraph’s newest editor  Changed the paper Fewer miscellanies on the front page More local coverage and more politics instead From weekly, to daily My workload exploded And with it, my opposition to slavery On Constitutional, rather than moral grounds Other papers favored slavery That’s when I took matters upon myself Lightly attacked Charles Barker in an editorial And it eventually came to fisticuffs In the city streets of Bloomington <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">My pen became a sword <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">The fight was stopped <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Not before I was hit with his cane <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">Had the fight continued though <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 200%;">He would’ve had reason to remember the day

Edward Lewis By: Taylor Kingston I WAS Edward Lewis. With writing my best form of thought, And my devotion to truth and justice, I put forth my best efforts into the Bloomington paper. In my adventures to the West In search for more, Writing remained the one thing I could hold on to, As I wrote of what I found, knew, and believed. Even fighting in the Civil War could not hold me back. In fact it spurred me on, As I wrote to free the volunteer forces, And help my fellow Civil War Veterans. I went to great extremes Even punching and kicking for my paper so that it would have, “More point than most of the former miscellany that had appeared”, And never revert to what it was before I was editor. And after all that, What has come of the paper? Nothing but lies and biases, Certainly not true reporting. Now I am long gone, And the papers now, they are falsehoods, Nothing but words on a page to scoff at. But my services and stand against slavery and injustice, They live on.