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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM GOODE by EDGAR LEE MASTERS

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First Line: TO ALL IN THE VILLAGE I SEEMED, NO DOUBT
Last Line: WERE WANDERINGS IN THE QUEST.

TO all in the village I seemed, no doubt,
To go this way and that way, aimlessly.
But here by the river you can see at twilight
The soft-winged bats fly zig-zag here and there --
They must fly so to catch their food.
And if you have ever lost your way at night,
In the deep wood near Miller's Ford,
And dodged this way and now that,
Wherever the light of the Milky Way shone through,
Trying to find the path,
You should understand I sought the way
With earnest zeal, and all my wanderings
Were wanderings in the quest.



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