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• The Funeral Tree Of The Sokokis. 1756
  By John Greenleaf Whittier

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  Excerpt: Around Sebago's lonely lake There lingers not a breeze to break The mirror which its waters make. The solemn pines along its shore, The firs which ...
• I Came to buy a smile -- today
  By Emily Dickinson

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  Excerpt: I Came to buy a smile -- today -- But just a single smile -- The smallest one upon your face Will suit me just as well -- The one that no one else ...
• June On The Merrimac
  By John Greenleaf Whittier

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  Excerpt: O dwellers in the stately towns, What come ye out to see? This common earth, this common sky, This water flowing free? As gayly as these kalmia ...
• To The Men Of Kent
  By William Wordsworth

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  Excerpt: OCTOBER 1803 Vanguard of Liberty, ye men of Kent, Ye children of a Soil that doth advance Her haughty brow against the coast of France, Now is the ...
• Kathleen
  By John Greenleaf Whittier

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  Excerpt: O Norah, lay your basket down, And rest your weary hand, And come and hear me sing a song Of our old Ireland. There was a lord of Galaway, A mighty ...