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| Date: | 1800 |
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| Description: | Needlework scene on silk worked in colored silk thread using running and crewel stitches. The hands and faces of the figures are watercolor on paper. Sce... |
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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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| Description: | The arrangements Somebody takes care of it: planning the details, announcements, transportation, setting the tone, fitting all the likel... |
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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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| 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: | 200 years this tree grew here and so did I We were raised here and brought up young ones |
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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: | I'll show you all the imported graces and you shall see New Fontainebleau |
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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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| 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: | There are Gothic ways the light comes drifting through a forest clothes fit, things pad themselves stone rests on stone and legends long persist, ... |
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| Description: | First-rate minds to write books, guide the young and lead the nation but the target runs close to the ground |
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| Description: | Our side of the fence is all dovetail — where they winked and upset the story-book, that's over on your side |
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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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| Description: | White horses, white fences that money can't buy |
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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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| Description: | Years ago, there was a man-sound from the hills, and a lifetime later its aged and legendary echo |
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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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| Description: | Hang hope still higher, let it ring Spend every care this day for hope itself must decorate the dream |
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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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