Elmer is a main character of "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters published in 1915. In the poem "The Hill" he is the first dead person cited:"Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all are sleeping on the hill. One passed in a fever," (...)
"Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert, Tom and Charley,
The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter?
All, all are sleeping on the hill.
One passed in a fever," (...)