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From Bindle's opera house in the village / To Broadway is a great step.
But I tried to take it, my ambition fired / When sixteen years of age, / Seeing "East Lynne," played here in the village / By Ralph Barrett, the coming / Romantic actor, who enthralled my soul.
True, I trailed back home, a broken failure, / When Ralph disappeared in New York, / Leaving me alone in the city --
But life broke him also.
In all this place of silence / There are no kindred spirits.
How I wish Duse could stand amid the pathos / Of these quiet fields / And read these words.