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    "text": "The bank broke and I lost my savings.",
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    "text": "I was sick of the tiresome game in Spoon River",
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    "text": "And I made up my mind to run away",
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    "text": "And leave my place in life and my family;",
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    "text": "But just as the midnight train pulled in,",
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    "text": "Quick off the steps jumped Cully Green",
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    "text": "And Martin Vise, and began to fight",
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    "text": "To settle their ancient rivalry,",
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    "text": "Striking each other with fists that sounded",
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    "text": "Like the blows of knotted clubs.",
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    "text": "Now it seemed to me that Cully was winning,",
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    "text": "When his bloody face broke into a grin",
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    "text": "Of sickly cowardice, leaning on Martin",
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    "text": "And whining out “We’re good friends, Mart,",
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    "text": "You know that I’m your friend.”",
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    "text": "But a terrible punch from Martin knocked him",
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    "text": "Around and around and into a heap.",
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    "text": "And then they arrested me as a witness,",
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    "text": "And I lost my train and stayed in Spoon River",
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    "text": "To wage my battle of life to the end.",
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    "text": "Oh, Cully Green, you were my savior⁠—",
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    "text": "You, so ashamed and drooped for years,",
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    "text": "Loitering listless about the streets,",
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    "text": "And tying rags ’round your festering soul,",
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    "text": "Who failed to fight it out.",
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