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What a marvel the circus has been in American life. The older generations thought to "run away and join the circus". Even the name circus brings the globe and epochs home under a tent the circle of life, exitus-reditus, and the gamut of creation from the so-called freaks to the great physiques of acrobats and the beasts, and the spectators and clowns of all emotions, together.

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e. e. cummings mentions the song, Rosary, by Ethelbert Nevin, a long popular work of piano sheet music, decades later it appeared also in the repertoire of Mahalia Jackson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHesvTRAESo

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