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... ladies all dolled up like Dolly Madison who take visitors over the Williamsburg Colonial Capitol and give their spiel whether you want to hear it or not . One place Lankes hates perfectly . That is Europe and all older lands . One time ...
... ladies all dolled up like Dolly Madison who take visitors over the Williamsburg Colonial Capitol and give their spiel whether you want to hear it or not . One place Lankes hates perfectly . That is Europe and all older lands . One time ...
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... ladies of them . They speak English proverbs and idioms . They live a new life . Shakespeare did the same by Anthony and Caesar and Brutus . They wear Elizabethan ruffs and tell time by Elizabethan clocks , and they talk like the ...
... ladies of them . They speak English proverbs and idioms . They live a new life . Shakespeare did the same by Anthony and Caesar and Brutus . They wear Elizabethan ruffs and tell time by Elizabethan clocks , and they talk like the ...
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alive angles artists autumn leaves baited barns beauty beneath Blake block blush boat brook brought Brushing bulge carpenter chewing City of Portland clouds color comes home COUNTRY CHURCH COUNTRY CHURCH YARD COUNTRY CHURCHYARD cutting discovered J. J. Lankes door E'en e'er ELEGY WRITTEN Elizabethan elms England English eyes feather footprints Forbade frozen geniuses gingerbread graver graveyards Gray Gray's ELEGY Hampden hands happen HARPER & BROTHERS Heav'n heave hired houses housewife immortal Italian J. J. Lankes's ladies leaf light lines look mediaeval missed modern American morning Negroes never o'er once pants paper pity and peace plowman poem Poetry printing press right places Robert Frost roofs ruin safely dead sculpture shed shirt sleeves shudder smiling snow soul stick take pains talk tear things thumb took trees TRISTRAM COFFIN Trying to live uncle village Virginian Williamsburg wintry wood woodcut wooden words YARD yonder