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A Study
If your thoughts were as clear as your eyes, / And the whole of your heart were true, / You were fitter by far for winning,
A. D. Blood
If you in the village think that my work was a good one, / Who closed the saloons and stopped all playing at cards, / And haled old Daisy Fraser before Justice Arnett,
Aaron Hatfield
Better than granite, Spoon River, / Is the memory-picture you keep of me / Standing before the pioneer men and women
Abel Melveny
I bought every kind of machine that's known - / Grinders, shellers, planters, mowers, / Mills and rakes and ploughs and threshers -
Ace" Shaw
I never saw any difference / Between playing cards for money / And selling real estate,
Adam Weirauch
I was crushed between Altgeld and Armour. / I lost many friends, much time and money / Fighting for Altgeld whom Editor Whedon
Albert Schirding
Jonas Keene thought his lot a hard one / Because his children were all failures. / But I know of a fate more trying than that:
Alfonso Churchill
They laughed at me as "Prof. Moon," / As a boy in Spoon River, born with the thirst / Of knowing about the stars.
Alfred Moir
Why was I not devoured by self-contempt, / And rotted down by indifference / And impotent revolt like Indignation Jones?
All Life In A Life
His father had a large family / Of girls and boys and he was born and bred / In a barn or kind of cattle shed.
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