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    "text": "I looked like Abraham Lincoln.",
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    "text": "I was one of you, Spoon River, in all fellowship,",
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    "text": "But standing for the rights of property and for order.",
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    "text": "A regular church attendant,",
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    "text": "Sometimes appearing in your town meetings to warn you",
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    "text": "Against the evils of discontent and envy,",
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   {
    "text": "And to denounce those who tried to destroy the Union,",
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    "text": "And to point to the peril of the Knights of Labor.",
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    "text": "My success and my example are inevitable influences",
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    "text": "In your young men and in generations to come,",
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   {
    "text": "In spite of attacks of newspapers like the Clarion;",
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    "text": "A regular visitor at Springfield",
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    "text": "When the Legislature was in session",
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    "text": "To prevent raids upon the railroads,",
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    "text": "And the men building up the state.",
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    "text": "Trusted by them and by you, Spoon River, equally",
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    "text": "In spite of the whispers that I was a lobbyist.",
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    "text": "Moving quietly through the world, rich and courted.",
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    "text": "Dying at last, of course, but lying here",
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    "text": "Under a stone with an open book carved upon it",
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   {
    "text": "And the words “Of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.”",
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    "text": "And now, you world-savers, who reaped nothing in life",
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    "text": "And in death have neither stones nor epitaphs,",
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    "text": "How do you like your silence from mouths stopped",
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    "text": "With the dust of my triumphant career?",
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