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Page xi
... stones brought up by the frost in a field . J. J. Lankes got Frost's country down . And Lankes went and did the same for his own adopted home , Virginia . Nobody could ask for more of a contrast . Virginia is soft where New England is ...
... stones brought up by the frost in a field . J. J. Lankes got Frost's country down . And Lankes went and did the same for his own adopted home , Virginia . Nobody could ask for more of a contrast . Virginia is soft where New England is ...
Page xvi
... stone does . His clouds are American clouds . There are democratic shoats roaming like lords of creation and with a fine un - British freedom around an American farmyard and a wooden pump . The housewife of this elegy wears an American ...
... stone does . His clouds are American clouds . There are democratic shoats roaming like lords of creation and with a fine un - British freedom around an American farmyard and a wooden pump . The housewife of this elegy wears an American ...
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... due in sad array Slow through the church - way path we saw him borne . Approach and read ( for thou canst read ) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon agèd thorn : ” B THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap. 57 ...
... due in sad array Slow through the church - way path we saw him borne . Approach and read ( for thou canst read ) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon agèd thorn : ” B THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap. 57 ...
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