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One summer hour abides, what time I perched, Dappled with noon-day, under simmering leaves, And pulled the pulpy oxhearts, while aloof An oriole clattered and the robins shrilled, Denouncing me an alien and a thief.
One summer hour abides, what time I perched, Dappled with noon-day, under simmering leaves, And pulled the pulpy oxhearts, while aloof An oriole clattered and the robins shrilled, Denouncing me an alien and a thief.
Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- James Russell Lowell
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- Approximate author period: c. 1855 AD · industrial
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 113 · printed citation: J. R. Lowell (The Cathedral). · compiler notes excluded
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