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October 20, 2016

A Rose by Emily Dickinson

       A sepal, petal, and a thorn     Upon a common summer's morn,     A flash of dew, a โ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

Sunset: St. Louis by Sara Teasdale

Hushed in the smoky haze of summer sunset, When I came home again from far-off places, How many times I saw my western city Dream by her river. Then โ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

A Paumanok Picture by Walt Whitman

Two boats with nets lying off the sea-beach, quite still, Ten fishermen waiting--they discover a thick school of mossbonkers-- they drop the join'd seโ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

Evening Star by Edgar Allan Poe

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October 20, 2016

The Echoing Green by William Blake

    The sun does arise,     And make happy the skies;     The merry bells ring  &nbspโ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest; keep us here All simply in the springing of โ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

The Park by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The prosperous and beautiful     To me seem not to wear     The yoke of conscience masโ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

Marlena by Herman Melville

    Far off in the sea is Marlena,     A land of shades and streams,     A land of many deโ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016

Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost

It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurry There is more unmixed color on the wing Than flowers will โ€ฆ
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