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| Description: | Sunday was the day when, to a stranger, almost nothing happened. But to us it was the best day of all |
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| Description: | As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part |
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| Description: | Around the corner: the geography of childhood |
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| Description: | To some who want to leave it would be dull But to us who want to stay the moment is surprising: never lax only turning out of nowhere lastin... |
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| Description: | Patience we learned and requiem to rest the tense who die For we forgot the brazen earth in courtship of the sky |
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| Description: | Please listen to the great owl Please listen to the education Please learn how to save hard things for the easy way |
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| Description: | There are Gothic ways the light comes drifting through a forest clothes fit, things pad themselves stone rests on stone and legends long persist, ... |
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| Description: | The fife and drum are not so innocent the vulture's eye is on the dance |
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| Description: | First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation but the target runs close to the ground |
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| Description: | Rockford, Ill. J.H. Denison Editorial room of the Milwaukee Journal Probably the Black River at Black River Falls Children taug... |
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| Description: | Even the slow, dry, hungry engines, digging what would be the best of times, cannot help but leave behind them a restlessness unchanging as bef... |
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| Description: | The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed eight round, ten long For his design, the strengthened forest capriciously outgrew them all... |
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| Description: | Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they winked and upset the story-book, that's over on your side |
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| Description: | As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes no modern culture could survive without a touch of France |
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| Description: | New land cut out by real imaginary lines based in older spirit courses lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet |
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| Description: | The world is flat; we get around this stretched credulity by going straight as an arrow and meeting ourselves in a space of time |
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| Description: | Native buildings, hardly noticed in the tapestry, long as a house of indeterminates full of ladders unexplained |
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| Description: | If you will tell me, then, the things that you have read I shall not have heard of them but I will read them for your sake There is a meeting ... |
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| Description: | Everybody who lived should get a gold watch for endurance and a chain for hanging |
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| Description: | De Pere, Wis. The sound has never left the harp The song will never leave the well |
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