My name used to be in the papers daily <br />As having dined somewhere, <br />Or traveled somewhere, <br />Or rented a house in Paris, <br />Where I entertained the nobility. <br />I was forever eating or traveling, <br />Or taking the cure at Baden-Baden. <br />Now I am here to do honor <br />To Spoon River, here beside the family whence I sprang. <br />No one cares now where I dined, <br />Or lived, or whom I entertained, <br />Or how often I took the cure at Baden-Baden!<br /><br />Edgar Lee Masters<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/hortense-robbins/
