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| Description: | All the tribal affidavits came finger-lickin' to pray against the rain to tolerate a cast of wills and listen to the stories from the Book of Comm... |
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| Description: | Something less than the half of everything is the better, the partner, the woman waiting What counselor, over his shoulder, can count the ways |
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| Description: | The bargain was that the driven wedge would never be withdrawn |
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| Description: | A man in motion moves upon good reason. To create disorder he must stop and settle down. |
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| Description: | The monument is now The place is ripe for building a roll-call of seekers out of the earth For each, his glory is the doing and his dre... |
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| Description: | Cranberry growing has been and is one of the most profitable and picturesque branches of agriculture in Wisconsin. In the 1860's and 1870's, land previousl... |
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| Description: | We tend to forget that at the time of the destruction of the forests, an emergency situation existed. The need for lumber for the building up of the... |
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| Description: | Put aside anything so futile All that fermented time spent and blackened, much obscured, is now restored with cheese and wine |
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| Description: | It's a day for celebration, just to be so cheering glad and everyone to know |
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| Description: | Every macho-mind knows exactly what and where it is — up front, smoking hot, born to circumstance, savage watchman of the several thousand Rights |
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| Description: | The first time out of doors in shirtsleeves is a moment of kindlier feeling, of stern and lonely reservations gladly set aside. With the passing ... |
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| Description: | A fire is not a place, but a containment to keep burning. A reassembly of inner flames around the patriarch, A school and script for golden we... |
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| Description: | If we could look forward? If they could have looked forward? at what kind of life along what kind of dotted lines? At the top of the stairs, t... |
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| Description: | Against the prescience of disaster is the safety of even numbers |
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| Description: | An unhappy majority some of whom voted for frivolous reasons reflected the north/south split In their nascent paranoia, they preached their vi... |
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| Description: | In God we Trust assorted needs The complex amplitudes and waste are never balanced, only tasted |
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| Description: | Rooms remembered for what they led to What they shut out and how they silent sang |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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| Description: | Let us be wrong in all our judgments At that fine point We cannot quite believe the steps between the superstitions The feathers, the little e... |
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| Description: | Height is might The expansionists and the young want up the elevation An overview high, and especially away |
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