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Take any life you choose and study it	A
It gladdens troubles changes many lives	B
The life goes out how many things result	C
Fate drops a stone and to the utmost shores	D
The circles spread	E
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Now such a book were endless	F
If every circle riffle should be traced	G
Of any life and so of Elenor Murray	H
Whose life was humble and whose death was tragic	I
And yet behold the riffles spread the lives	B
That are affected and the secrets gained	J
Of lives she never knew of as for that	K
For even the world could not contain the books	L
That should be written if all deeds were traced	G
Effects results gains losses of her life	M
And of her death	N
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Concretely said in brief	O
A man and woman have produced this child	P
What was the child's pre natal circumstance	Q
How did her birth affect the father mother	R
What did their friends old women relatives	B
Take from the child in feeling joy or pain	S
What of her childhood friends her days at school	T
Her teachers girlhood sweethearts lovers later	R
When she became a woman What of these	U
And what of those who got effects because	V
They knew this Elenor Murray	H
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Then she dies	W
Read how the human secrets are exposed	X
In many lives because she died not all	Y
Lives by her death affected written here	Z
The reader may trace out such other riffles	W
As come to him this book must have an end	A2
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Enough is shown to show what could be told	B2
If we should write a world of books In brief	O
One feature of the plot elaborates	W
The closeness of one life however humble	C2
With every life upon this globe In truth	D2
I sit here in Chicago housed and fed	E
And think the world secure at peace the clock	E2
Just striking three in Europe striking eight	F2
And in some province in some palace hut	G2
Some words are spoken or a fisticuff	H2
Results between two brawlers and for that	K
A blue eyed boy my grandson we may say	W
Not even yet in seed but to be born	I2
A half a century hence is by those words	W
That fisticuff drawn into war in Europe	J2
Shrieks from a bullet through the groin and lies	W
Under the sod of France	W
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But to return	K2
To Elenor Murray I have made a book	L2
Called Domesday Book a census spiritual	C2
Taken of our America or in part	M2
Taken not wholly taken it may be	H
For William Merival the coroner	R
Who probed the death of Elenor Murray goes	W
As far as may be and beyond his power	R
In diagnosis of America	N2
While finding out the cause of death In short	O2
Becomes a William the Conqueror that way	W
In making up a Domesday Book for us	W
Of this a little later But before	P2
We touch upon the Domesday book of old	B2
We take up Elenor Murray show her birth	Q2
Then skip all time between and show her death	N
Then take up Coroner Merival who was he	H
Then trace the life of Elenor Murray through	R2
The witnesses at the inquest on the body	H
Of Elenor Murray also letters written	S2
And essays written conversations heard	T2
But all evoked by Elenor Murray's death	N
And by the way trace riffles here and there	U2
A word now on the Domesday book of old	B2
Remember not a book of doom but a book	L2
Of houses domus house so domus book	L2
And this book of the death of Elenor Murray	H
Is not a book of doom though showing too	R2
How fate was woven round her and the souls	W
That touched her soul but is a house book too	R2
Of riches poverty and weakness strength	V2
Of this our country	H
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If you take St Luke	W2
You find an angel came to Mary said	E
Hail thou art highly favored shalt conceive	X2
Bring forth a son a king for David's throne	Y2
So tracing life before the life was born	I2
We do the same for Elenor Murray though	Z2
No man or angel said to Elenor's mother	R
You have found favor you are blessed of God	A3
You shall conceive bring forth a daughter blest	B3
And blessing you Quite otherwise the case	W
As being blest or blessing something like	C3
Perhaps in that desire or flame of life	M
Which gifts new souls with passion strength and love	D3
This is the manner of the girl's conception	S2
And of her birth	Q2

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