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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: HORTENSE ROBBINS by EDGAR LEE MASTERS

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First Line: MY NAME USED TO BE IN THE PAPERS DAILY
Last Line: OR HOW OFTEN I TOOK THE CURE AT BADEN-BADEN!
MY name used to be in the papers daily
As having dined somewhere,
Or traveled somewhere,
Or rented a house in Paris,
Where I entertained the nobility.
I was forever eating or traveling,
Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden.
Now I am here to do honor
To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang.
No one cares now where I dined,
Or lived, or whom I entertained,
Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!



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