| Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917. |
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| 225. Spoon River Anthology |
| | | Perry Zoll |
| | | By Edgar Lee Masters |
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| MY thanks, friends of the County Scientific Association, | |
| For this modest boulder, | |
| And its little tablet of bronze. | |
| Twice I tried to join your honored body, | |
| And was rejected, | 5 |
| And when my little brochure | |
| On the intelligence of plants | |
| Began to attract attention | |
| You almost voted me in. | |
| After that I grew beyond the need of you | 10 |
| And your recognition. | |
| Yet I do not reject your memorial stone, | |
| Seeing that I should, in so doing, | |
| Deprive you of honor to yourselves. | |
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