Edward Rowland Sill
Edward Rowland Sill (April 29, 1841 – February 27, 1887) was an American poet and educator. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, he graduated from Yale in 1861, where he was Class Poet and a member of Skull and Bones. He engaged in business in California, and entered the Harvard Divinity School in 1867 but soon left for a position on the staff of the New York Evening Mail. After teaching at Wadsworth and Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio (1868-1871), he became principal of Oakland High School in Oakland, California.
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““Home” is any four walls that enclose the right person.”
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“At the punch-bowl’s brink,
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What they say in Japan:
First the man takes a drink,
Then the drink takes a drink,
Then the drink takes the man!”
—Edward Rowland Sill (1841–1887)