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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: A. D. BLOOD by EDGAR LEE MASTERS

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First Line: IF YOU IN THE VILLAGE THINK THAT MY WORK WAS A GOOD ONE
Last Line: NIGHTLY MAKE MY GRAVE THEIR UNHOLY PILLOW?
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,
In many a crusade to purge the people of sin;
Why do you let the milliner's daughter Dora,
And the worthless son of Benjamin Pantier,
Nightly make my grave their unholy pillow?



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