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SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: DEACON TAYLOR, by                 Poet Analysis     Poet's Biography
First Line: I belonged to the church
Last Line: "spiritus frumenti."


I BELONGED to the church,
And to the party of prohibition;
And the villagers thought I died of eating water-melon.
In truth I had cirrhosis of the liver,
For every noon for thirty years,
I slipped behind the prescription partition
In Trainor's drug store
And poured a generous drink
From the bottle marked
"Spiritus frumenti."





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