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Trotwood Madison, the rancher,

who descended from a cousin

of our nation's fourth President,

and the writer of the greatest

Constitution (our Republic's,

that no innkeeper's gross ego

ever will suspend or alter);

whose first name his mother found in

David Copperfield---the famous

novel written by Charles Dickens,

published in the year before her

son (whom she named Trotwood) was born:

Trotwood Madison thus traveled

westward into vast Montana,

and there spread a most successful

ranch---with many head of cattle;

and invested in a railroad

(though some local scoffers sneered it),

and lined his library's long shelves

with a multitude of volumes---

finest Poets' finest verses,

and many novels of George Sand

(as many as he could locate).

But, centrally placed within his

library, his mother's Bible;

and upon the table next to

his bed was a smaller Bible

that he opened daily, nightly,

and, each Sunday, carried with him

to the Baptist chapel near to

his land's furthest eastward fences

and the fancy gate of entrance

that he had built, through which each day's

dawn entered with that day's blessings. 

Starward