Ultimately

Ultimately was published in Hemingway's collection, Three Stories and Ten Poems (1923), retrieved from Wikisource.

He tried to spit out the truth;
Dry mouthed at first,
He drooled and slobbed in the end;
Truth dribbling his chin.

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