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... were an American one . They have woven an English poem into the fabric of American life . They learned it and made it fit their New England and Indianan graveyards and cottages . These lovely words , which General Wolfe first brought to XV.
... were an American one . They have woven an English poem into the fabric of American life . They learned it and made it fit their New England and Indianan graveyards and cottages . These lovely words , which General Wolfe first brought to XV.
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... graveyards and American homeliness and quiet . It is our more southern twilight that comes over the world . So Lankes is right . He has worked fourteen years on this classic which took Gray five years to do , and he has brought it out ...
... graveyards and American homeliness and quiet . It is our more southern twilight that comes over the world . So Lankes is right . He has worked fourteen years on this classic which took Gray five years to do , and he has brought it out ...
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