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Flossie Cabanis

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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.

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