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Monthly Archives: July 2007

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Ein Freund ging nach Amerika
by Peter Rosegger (1843-1918)
Ein Freund ging nach Amerika
und schrieb mir vor einigen Lenzen:
Schicke mir Rosen aus Steiermark,
ich hab

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Woak Hill
by William Barnes (1801-1886)
When sycamore leaves wer a-spreaden
Green-ruddy in hedges,
Bezide the red doust o

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De?teapt?-te, rom

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The Habit of Perfection
by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
Elected Silence, sing to me
And beat upon my whorl

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Mortality
by William Knox (1789-1825)
O why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a fast-flitting meteor, a fast-flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
He passes from life to his rest in the grave.
The leaves of the oak and the willow shall fade,
Be scattered around and together be laid;
And the young and the [...]

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Vision
by Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
I had been sitting along with books,
Till doubt was a black disease,
When I heard the cheerful shout of rocks
In the bare, prophetic trees.
Bare trees, prophetic of new birth,
You lift your branches clean and free
To be a beacon to the earth,
A [...]

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Come, Come Away
by Parley P. Pratt (1807-1857)
because today is Pioneer Day
O come, come away,
From northern blasts retiring,
These wintry times to milder climes,
O come, come away;
Where Gentile foot has never been,
The clear, blue sky is ever seen,
And spring is ever green,
O come, come away.
O come, come away,
Where hope is still inspiring,
Where flow

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Ode to Neptune
On Mrs. W—–’s Voyage to England.
by Phillis Wheatly (1753-1784)
I.
While raging tempests shake the shore,
While Aelus

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Pie in the Sky
by Joseph Hillstr