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Is it true, Spoon River, / That in the hall-way of the New Court House / There is a tablet of bronze / Containing the embossed faces / Of Editor Whedon and Thomas Rhodes?
And is it true that my successful labors / In the County Board, without which / Not one stone would have been placed on another, / And the contributions out of my own pocket / To build the temple, are but memories among the people, / Gradually fading away, and soon to descend / With them to this oblivion where I lie?
In truth, I can so believe.
For it is a law of the Kingdom of Heaven / That whoso enters the vineyard at the eleventh hour / Shall receive a full day's pay.
And it is a law of the Kingdom of this World / That those who first oppose a good work / Seize it and make it their own, / When the corner-stone is laid, / And memorial tablets are erected.