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| Date: | 1819 |
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| Description: | A commemorative handkerchief created by a wood engraving on white cotton fabric. The scene is the Manchester Reform Meeting, in England. A crowd of demonst... |
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| Description: | The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west. But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<... |
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| Description: | A working lifetime minted these good coins – every day devoted to circulating them through the same routine streets wore them thin into retirement |
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| Description: | The visionaries: slightly seeing as many improvements as there are egos to reckon with |
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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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | The fife and drum are not so innocent the vulture's eye is on the dance |
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| Description: | Rockford, Ill. J.H. Denison Editorial room of the Milwaukee Journal Probably the Black River at Black River Falls Children taug... |
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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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| Description: | As a sporting proposition of gaiety infused with taxes no modern culture could survive without a touch of France |
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| Description: | New land cut out by real imaginary lines based in older spirit courses lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet |
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| Description: | The world is flat; we get around this stretched credulity by going straight as an arrow and meeting ourselves in a space of time |
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| Description: | Everybody who lived should get a gold watch for endurance and a chain for hanging |
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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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| Description: | There used to be a quiet. It wasn't deafness, it was roses But they don't make it any more They think it was a toy |
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| Description: | In the afternoon, nothing Overnight, unseen In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers sending telegrams for more |
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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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| Description: | You don't have to pay if you can prove that the fun you had was clean |
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| Description: | When we built our house we couldn't afford it, but we built everything the best It's our fortune, and I am so very thankful A rock An ark ... |
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