John Milton Hay è stato un politico, diplomatico e giornalista statunitense, nonché segretario di Stato ed assistente di Abraham Lincoln. Wikipedia
“At my door the Pale Horse stands
To carry me to unknown lands.”
"The Stirrup Cup", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
“The people will come to their own at last,—
God is not mocked forever.”
"The Sphynx of the Tuileries", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).
"Little Breeches", Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces (1873).
From a 1903 letter to President Roosevelt, John Hay Papers, Library of Congress.
“He never funked and he never lied
I reckon he never knowed how.”
"Jim Bludso", Pike County Ballads http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pike_County_Ballads, (1871).
