Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard |
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Page vii
... barn door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of ...
... barn door until he is safely dead . Most people prefer their geniuses dead . They are more comfort- able to get along with that way . You know where they are , nights . While they are alive , they have the disturbing qualities of ...
Page xi
... barns and stonewalls that never seem like things that have to be built but things that just happen of their own accord , just as the brooks and the dandelions happen along in the right places . There were the clean cones of fir trees ...
... barns and stonewalls that never seem like things that have to be built but things that just happen of their own accord , just as the brooks and the dandelions happen along in the right places . There were the clean cones of fir trees ...
Page xii
... barns into his blocks . They are good barns , best in the world maybe . Some of them are as large as châteaux in France or some of the European cathedrals . They have just as much beauty of line and mass in them , too . They are right ...
... barns into his blocks . They are good barns , best in the world maybe . Some of them are as large as châteaux in France or some of the European cathedrals . They have just as much beauty of line and mass in them , too . They are right ...
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