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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 12-18

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Description: She didn't quite make clear what we were going to find when we got here
on the outer edge of worry
It wasn't Chinamen and it wasn't wild rice
A ha...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 33-46

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Description: The Little Bluebirds — has anyone expressed it better
than Judy Garland singing
. . . why, oh why, can't I
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 70-78

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Description: If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom
and another age begin
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 85-90

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Description: 200 years this tree grew here and so did I
We were raised here and brought up young ones
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 103-109

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Description: The style of reachings, temporal or spiritual, for transformation of the earth.

The chapel of Rockford Female Seminary, later Rockford College, 1889-1892...

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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 116-123

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Description: Well-scrubbed proprieties, in no danger
except the possible over-minding of their own manners
or being out-voted by Activists
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 132-138

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Description: As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 148-153

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Description: To some who want to leave
it would be dull
But to us who want to stay
the moment is surprising:
never lax
only turning out of nowhere lastin...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 154-160

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Description: Patience we learned and requiem
to rest the tense who die
For we forgot the brazen earth
in courtship of the sky
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 161-165

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Description: Please listen to the great owl
Please listen to the education

Please learn how to save hard things
for the easy way
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 207-215

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Description: The log who was made King of Logs is here entombed
eight round, ten long

For his design, the strengthened forest
capriciously outgrew them all...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 259-266

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Description: If you will tell me, then, the things that you have read
I shall not have heard of them
but I will read them for your sake

There is a meeting ...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 281-288

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Description: De Pere, Wis.

The sound has never left the harp
The song will never leave the well
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 304-311

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Description: Always looking at the vacancy in that great sea of people

All there ever was was a greeting card
and that one a mirage
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 325-333

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Description: White horses, white fences that money can't buy
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 334-342

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Description: Star of our Jesus, so extra bright
Make me a country child just for tonight

Bur Grinnerung an die
Jubiläumsfeier der Freien Gemeinde von Sauf ...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

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Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 400-412

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Description: We were promised, we were told
that candy came in stripes and boxes

But some was stacked,
like lost rewards, the chocolate-coated paradoxes
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 413-420

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Description: Bring back somehow the big Hello
Prolong the noisiest day
The clapping hands are stilled too soon
And much too far away
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Wisconsin Thematic Panel 421-427

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Description: A word without momentum that settled on a note of calm

caught wind

and spun its venom into froth, to cool
a Sunday afternoon in June

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