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    "text": "You never marveled, dullards of Spoon River,",
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   {
    "text": "When Chase Henry voted against the saloons",
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    "text": "To revenge himself for being shut off.",
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    "text": "But none of you was keen enough",
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    "text": "To follow my steps, or trace me home",
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    "text": "As Chase’s spiritual brother.",
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   {
    "text": "Do you remember when I fought",
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    "text": "The bank and the courthouse ring,",
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    "text": "For pocketing the interest on public funds?",
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   {
    "text": "And when I fought our leading citizens",
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    "text": "For making the poor the pack-horses of the taxes?",
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    "text": "And when I fought the water works",
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    "text": "For stealing streets and raising rates?",
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    "text": "And when I fought the business men",
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    "text": "Who fought me in these fights?",
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    "text": "Then do you remember:",
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    "text": "That staggering up from the wreck of defeat,",
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    "text": "And the wreck of a ruined career,",
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    "text": "I slipped from my cloak my last ideal,",
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    "text": "Hidden from all eyes until then,",
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    "text": "Like the cherished jawbone of an ass,",
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    "text": "And smote the bank and the water works,",
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    "text": "And the business men with prohibition,",
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    "text": "And made Spoon River pay the cost",
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    "text": "Of the fights that I had lost.",
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