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Spoon River Anthology
Conrad Siever

by Edgar Lee Masters

Not in that wasted garden   
Where bodies are drawn into grass   
That feeds no flocks, and into evergreens
That bear no fruit—   
There where along the shaded walks
Vain sighs are heard,   
And vainer dreams are dreamed   
Of close communion with departed souls—
But here under the apple tree   
I loved and watched and pruned 
With gnarled hands   
In the long, long years;   
Here under the roots of this northern-spy
To move in the chemic change and circle of life,
Into the soil and into the flesh of the tree,
And into the living epitaphs   
Of redder apples! 
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