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Masters, Edgar Lee: Spoon River Anthology - Fiddler Jones

Portre of Masters, Edgar Lee

Spoon River Anthology - Fiddler Jones (English)

  The earth keeps some vibration going

  There in your heart, and that is you.

  And if the people find you can fiddle,

  Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.

  What do you see, a harvest of clover?

  Or a meadow to walk through to the river?

  The wind's in the corn; you rub your hands

  For beeves hereafter ready for market;

  Or else you hear the rustle of skirts

  Like the girls when dancing at Little Grove.

  To Cooney Potter a pillar of dust

  Or whirling leaves meant ruinous drouth;

  They looked to me like Red-Head Sammy

  Stepping it off, to "Toor-a-Loor."

  How could I till my forty acres

  Not to speak of getting more,

  With a medley of horns, bassoons and piccolos

  Stirred in my brain by crows and robins

  And the creak of a wind-mill--only these?

  And I never started to plow in my life

  That some one did not stop in the road

  And take me away to a dance or picnic.

  I ended up with forty acres;

  I ended up with a broken fiddle--

  And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,

  And not a single regret.



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