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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PEN... ...ve by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...d useless and with nothing in her but what he accounted for. She had grown red and almost fat, which were not happy signs of mourning; less and less l... ...ground, they spent their days in prowling, whereas Marian, in garments and shoes that seemed steadily to grow looser and larger, never prowled. There ... ...wenty summers, in spite of her marks, whose hair was somehow exceptionally red even for the real thing, which it innocently confessed to being, and wh... ...ant abruptness, her forbearance from gush, her um- brellas and jackets and shoes—as these things sketched themselves to Milly—and something rather of ... ..., one of those strange instants be- tween man and woman that blow upon the red spark, the spark of conflict, ever latent in the depths of passion. She... ...r, in her caged freedom, had yet done. Brown Pasquale, slip- ping in white shoes over the marble and suggesting to her perpetually charmed vision she ...

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...ral lessons. Look at your favorite fairy tales—the big bad wolf in Little Red Riding Hood; the wicked step mothers and step sisters, like in Cindere... ...ully and imaginatively. Of course they often wear impractical high heeled shoes just to make their legs look longer. But the extended angle of the an... ...or a new house on Broadbeach Road in Malibu his rule was that anyone with shoes would lose them to the beach bonfire. “My father told me that ... ...rse for the Western worker. Low skilled jobs suffered. Making clothes and shoes or furniture can be done cheaper in underdeveloped countries like Ch... ...and Economic Policy: Fixing Public Pension Systems with Healthcare in the Wings. Fiscal Studies: 26:1 (2005) pp. 5-34 2. Archives of General Psychia...

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...new that day by dying men, and marked its frightened way with an unnatural track. The painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red....

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... track. The painted butterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground became a quagmire, whence, ... ...utterfly took blood into the air upon the edges of its wings. The stream ran red. The trodden ground became a quagmire, whence, from sullen pools coll... ... 3 The Battle of Life tance on the borders of the sky and earth, where the red sunsets faded. Crops were sown, and grew up, and were gath ered in; ... ...Life 6 ‘No! Do you really, father?’ cried his pet daughter, pursing up her red lips to be kissed. ‘There! Take my love with it,’ said the Doctor, i... ...nt justice to her equanimity. Her dress was a prodigious pair of self willed shoes, that never wanted to go where her feet went; blue stockings; a pri... ... diminished; and when the cart stopped at the Nutmeg Grater door, a pair of shoes, alighting from it, slipped nim bly through Mr. Britain’s open arm... ...s open arms, and came down with a substantial weight upon the pathway, which shoes could hardly have belonged to any one but Clemency Newcome. In fact...

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...spersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away, though the sky to the westward still preserved a little pale golden light by the help of ...

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... cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leath- ern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on ... ... safer if I were away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they keep you safe?’ asked the ... ..., I can see. Come, an you love me, tell me true! I told you true who I am, Red Rose though I see you be! Why not trust me the same?’ 16 The Herd Boy ... ... e more meaning than perhaps Hal understood. ‘ And the white overcomes the red.’ ‘May be the red will have its way with spring—’ But there Hob looked ... ... may I not go with thee?’ ‘Nay, my fair son. Thou art beneath thy mother’s wing, while I am like one who was hunted as a partridge on the mountains.’ ... ...w, sheaf of arrows, strong knife or pike, buff coat, head- piece and stout shoes; also a wallet of provisions for three days, or a certain amount of c... ...S’ THE MINORESSES’ The bird that hath been limed in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush. —Shakespeare. ONE DAY, soon after that T welf... ...ivering at the least gust of fresh wind, and not daring to wet their satin shoes if there had been a shower of rain in the cloisters. Were we not all ...

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... by Stephen Crane A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, the Pennsylvania State University, E... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Stephen Crane The Red Badge of Courage An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane ... ...one of them. He was a slightly ragged man, who spat skillfully between his shoes and possessed a great fund of bland and infantile assurance. The yout... ...awkward suit of yellowish brown. The youth could see that the soles of his shoes had been worn to the thinness of writing paper, and from a great rent... ...k his impudent head around the side of a tree. A bird flew on lighthearted wing. Off was the rumble of death. It seemed now that Nature had no ears. T... ...as a tattered man, fouled with dust, blood and pow- der stain from hair to shoes, who trudged quietly at the youth’s side. He was lis-tening with eage... ... voices, the clanking arms of the column near him made him soar on the red wings of war. For a few moments he was sublime. He thought that he was abou... ...to cry out. In their presence he could not persist in flying high with the wings of war; they rendered it almost impossible for him to see him-self in...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...iel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden... ...led speed, Hurries its waters to the T weed. No longer Autumn’s glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more, beneath the evening beam, Fair ... ...heir theme the merry minstrels made, Of Ascapart, and Bevis bold, And that Red King, who, while of old, Through Boldrewood the chase he led, By his lo... ...mbossed; Amid the plumage of the crest, A falcon hovered on her nest, With wings outspread, and forward breast: E’en such a falcon, on his shield, Soa... ...e? Let the wild falcon soar her swing, She’ll stoop when she has tired her wing.” XVIII. “Nay, if with royal James’s bride The lovely Lady Heron bide,... ... I heard, Which bids us be for storm prepared, The distant rustling of his wings, As up his force the tempest brings, ‘T were sweet, ere yet his terro... ...re A pointed cap, such as of yore Clerks say that Pharaoh’s Magi wore: His shoes were marked with cross and spell, Upon his breast a pentacle; His zon... ... of rule aside, And Ceremony doffed his pride. The heir, with roses in his shoes, That night might village partner choose; The lord, underogating, sha...

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...N TAINA? ........................................................................................................................................ 118 RED DOG .............................................................................................................................................................. 119 CHIL?S SONG .............................................

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......................................................................... 118 RED DOG ...................................................................... ...tinging fly that comes out of white smoke [Hathi meant the rifle], and the Red Flower that drives us into the open. Y et for one night in the year the... ...Hill-food is very simple, but with buckwheat and Indian corn, and rice and red pepper, and little fish out of the stream in the valley, and honey from... ...ctable, he flies off into wild, cripple-stilt war-dances, half opening his wings and bobbing his bald head up and down; while for reasons best known t... ...s; and, if my memory serves me well, a shoe. I should have shaken off both shoes, but I was hungry. I learned better later. Yes. And so I fed and rest... ... show that my tale is true.” “I?” said the Jackal. “Shall an eater of old shoes, a bone- cracker, presume, to doubt the word of the Envy of the River... ...e bridge almost above his head. “What now?” said the Adjutant, opening his wings uneas- ily. “Wait till we see. The wind blows from us to them, but th... ...r or failing away somewhere in the dark galleries; then a booming of angry wings, and the 128 The Second Jungle Book sullen drip, drip, drip, of the ...

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...as staring at Murillo?s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass....

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...of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass. The day was warm; he was heated with wal... ...h in the middle of the Madonna’s cheek. But the American frowned. “Ah, too red, too red!” he rejoined. “Her complexion,” pointing to the Murillo, “is—... ...bout.” “You’re easily pleased. But you can do as you choose— a man in your shoes. You have made a pile of money, eh?” “I have made enough” “Happy the ... ...ard high praise. “And how were those eyes?” Newman asked. “Those eyes were red with weeping, if you please!” said Mrs. Tristram. “She had been to conf... ...hing has a fine side to it. Ma- dame de Cintre bows her head and folds her wings.” “Can’t she at least make her brother leave off?” “Her brother is th... ...e of the spread eagle!” cried Tristram. “The spread eagle ought to use his wings,” said Mrs. Tristram. “Fly to the rescue of Madame de Cintre!” “To he... ...dia-rubber on a colossal scale. “My children have some little india-rubber shoes which they put on when they go to play in the Tuileries in damp weath... ... having apparently taken flight to the tailor’s, was fluttering her silken wings in emulation, shook hands with Newman, and said with a more persuasiv... ... were thrust into his pockets and his eyes were fixed upon the toes of his shoes, his feet being thrust out in front of him. Madame de Bellegarde appe...

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...?s life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly. Nurse was frightened when she looked at them. She turned all the little sisters out of the night nursery, covered Lucy up close, and ordered her not to stir...

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...he morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly. Nurse ... ...ake speeches and show wonders. He was away now. He had gone away to wear a red cross on his arm, and help to take care of the wounded in the sad war b... ... flounce at the bottom, a scarlet crape shawl with a blue dragon on it—his wings over her back, and a claw over each shoulder, so that whoever sat beh... ...le heart. So Lucy had her little scarlet flannel dressing gown on, and her shoes and stockings, and a wonderful old knitted hood with a tippet to it, ... ... but with an odd sort of white gar- ment round their waists, and some fine red and green feath- ers sticking out of their wooly heads. “Mrs. Bunker, M... ...dear vin- tage; come in and tread the grapes.” “But you must take off your shoes and stockings,” said his sister, Nunziata; “we never wear them but on... ...ountain maiden springing up to her like a kid, in spite of her great heavy shoes; “you should see the places Father and Seppel climb when they hunt th...

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...n costliness and splendour with those of the great European capitals, the world of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the ?new people? whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to; and the sentimental ...

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...orld of fashion was still content to reassemble every winter in the shabby red and gold boxes of the sociable old Academy. Conservatives cher- ished i... ...he base of shrubs shaped like orange-trees but studded with large pink and red roses. Gigantic pansies, considerably larger than the roses, and closel... ...d floor window of the neat brick villa projecting obliquely from the right wing. “The darling!” thought Newland Archer, his glance flitting back to th... ...verruled all scruples and hesi- tations, and sent him hurrying through the red corridors to the farther side of the house. As he entered the box his e... ...ydens, and so we all are, when it comes to being so much as brushed by the wing-tip of Reality.” But he saw her long gentle face puckering into tears,... ...on was in fact half way up the nave, the Bishop, the Rector and two white- winged assistants were hovering about the flower-banked al- tar, and the fi... ...to let people like Mrs. Lemuel Struthers think they can step into Regina’s shoes. It is just at such times that new people push in and get a footing. ...

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...Table of Contents: A Scandal in Bohemia, 1 -- I, 1 -- II, 9 -- III, 18 -- The Red-headed League, 21 -- A Case of Identity, 41 -- The Boscombe Valley Mystery, 56 -- The Five Orange Pips, 77 -- The Man with the Twisted Lip, 93 -- The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle, 113 -- The Adventure of the Speckled B...

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...III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 The Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 ... ...ing.” “I guessed as much.” “Then, when the row broke out, I had a little moist red paint in the palm of my hand. I rushed forward, fell down, clapped ... ... to her photograph, it is always under the honourable title of the woman. The Red headed League 21 The Red headed League 2 I HAD called upon my frien... ... my memory. The manor house is, as I have already said, very old, and only one wing is now inhabited. The bedrooms in this wing are on the ground floor... ...n the course of the spring. Two days ago some repairs were started in the west wing of the building, and my bedroom wall has been pierced, so that I h... ...as of gray, lichen blotched stone, with a high central portion and two curving wings, like the claws of a crab, thrown out on each side. In one of the... ...t easier in my mind when, after following Holmes’s example and slipping off my shoes, I found myself inside the bedroom. My companion noiselessly clos... ... high collar, black frock coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, patent leather shoes, and light coloured gaiters. He advanced slowly into the room, tu... ...d tumbled onto the floor a wedding dress of watered silk, a pair of white satin shoes and a bride’s wreath and veil, all discoloured and soaked in wate...

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...em, from time to time, as he passed, looked with a certain attention at the elder man, who, unconscious of observation, rested his eyes upon the rich red front of his dwelling. The house that rose beyond the lawn was a structure to repay such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch....

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...he elder man, who, unconscious of observation, rested his eyes upon the rich red front of his dwelling. The house that rose beyond the lawn was a stru... ...ver being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long gabled front of red brick, with the complexion of which time and the weather had played a... ..., with an arched frame and wide side lights, perched upon little “stoops” of red stone, which descended sidewise to the brick pavement of the street. ... ... an open handed gift of fate, had refreshed and quick ened them, given them wings and something to fly for. Poor Ralph had been for many weeks steeped... ...othing he winced at in the large air of it. He had never supposed she hadn’t wings and the need of beautiful free movements— he wasn’t, with his own l... ...of things you think wrong. Put back your watch. Diet your fever. Spread your wings; rise above the ground. It’s never wrong to do that.” She had liste... ...te dress, and her fair hair was neatly arranged in a net; she wore her small shoes tied sandal fashion about her ankles. She made Isabel a little conv...

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...IRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of the... ...IRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSE. by Edmund Spencer , the Pennsylvania State... ...IRST BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF THE KNIGHT OF THE RED CROSSE, OR OF HOLINESSE. LO I the man, whose Muse whilome did maske... ...their noyance he no where can rest, But with his clownish hands their tender wings He brusheth oft, and oft doth mar their murmurings. 9 THE FIRST BOO... ...the Yuorie dore, Remounted vp as light as chearefull Larke, And on his litle winges the dreame he bore In hast vnto his Lord, where he him left afore.... ... ioy: Then seemed him his Lady by him lay, And to him playnd, how that false winged boy, Her chast hart had subdewd, to learne Dame pleasures toy. 15 ... ... His life was nigh vnto deaths doore yplast, And thred bare cote, and cobled shoes he ware, Ne scarse good morsell all his life did tast, But both fro... ...ents staynd with filthy gore, And ouerflowed all the field around; That ouer shoes in bloud he waded on the ground. Thereat he roared for exceeding pa...

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...mer, Peters. In less than ten seconds that comet was just a blazing cloud of red hot canvas. It was piled up into the heavens clean out of sight — the... ...ime the captain of the comet had been rousted out, and he stood there in the red glare for’ard, by the mate, in his shirtsleeves and slippers, his hai... ... a minute; it is millions of leagues from here. Go outside and stand on that red wishing carpet; shut your eyes, hold your breath, and wish yourself t... ...knew sung out in a business kind of a way — “A harp and a hymn book, pair of wings and a halo, size 13, for Cap’n Eli Stormfield, of San Francisco! — ... ...uccess of it. So we concluded to walk, for the present, till we had had some wing practice. We begun to meet swarms of folks who were coming back. Som... ...he shoe maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won’t have to make shoes here.” “Now that’s all reasonable and right,” says I. “Plenty of wo... ...y interest in it. I was strong, and handsome, and had curly hair, — yes, and wings, too! — gay wings like a butterfly. I went to picnics and dances a...

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...n a rage, mut- tered inarticulate words as he pulled off his doublet, half red and half blue, and slipped on a shabby camlet jerkin. After helping him... ... into which she had sunk, and looked at the constable, who was donning his red-and-blue jacket. “Whither are you off to?” she asked. “To tell the just... ...Doctor Sigier’s day, as in our own, man has striven to gain 16 The Exiles wings to fly into the sanctuary where God hides from our gaze. This digress... ...hrough space, carrying with him the passionate souls of his hearers on the wings of his word, making them feel the infinite, and bathing them in the h... ...e to all His creatures. Only, do not forget the pattern of Moses; put your shoes from off your feet, cast off all filth, leave your body far behind; o... ...he sweetest poetry, rises up from a valley bathed in light, bearing on its wings the richest fra- grance. On the horizon I could see a golden city lik...

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...eyes mothered the world. Stewart Snyder peered at her. He rammed his large red fists into his pockets, he jerked them out, he resolutely got rid of th... ...uccess in the real-estate business. She took walks, and was sensible about shoes and diet. And never did she feel that she was living. She went to dan... ...the palm soft, but the back weathered, show- ing golden hairs against firm red skin. He looked at her as though she was an agreeable dis- covery. She ... ...m things—the steel stacks, and the everlasting cards smeared all over with red rubber stamps.” 16 Main Street “Don’t you get sick of the city?” “St. ... ...reeably broad turn- down linen collar, and frivolous ankles above athletic shoes. The High Bridge crosses the Mississippi, mounting from low banks to ... ...kmen going to new jobs; traveling salesmen with derbies and freshly shined shoes. They are parched and cramped, the lines of their hands filled with g... ...y mile or two was a chain of cobalt slews, with the flicker of blackbirds’ wings across them. All this working land was turned into exuberance by 28 ... ...row con- crete walk up to it. Sickly yellow leaves in a windrow with dried wings of box-elder seeds and snags of wool from the cotton-woods. A screene... ...lark she sounded insane. But he chuckled, “Now you just cuddle under Sam’s wing, and if anybody rubbers at you too 44 Main Street long, I’ll shoo ‘em...

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...ning out of a low garret window, watching the drying of his newly polished shoes on the little parapet outside (if a gentleman), or the airing of her ... ... man often comes out of the stable yard, with his whip in his hand and his shoes on, and brings out, in both hands, one boot at a time, which he plant... ... the noise they make about it!— 7 Charles Dickens he gets into the boots, shoes and all, or is hoisted into them by a couple of friends; adjusts the ... ...the Hotel de l’Ecu d’Or is here; and a gentle man in a glazed cap, with a red beard like a bosom friend, who is staying at the Hotel de l’Ecu d’Or, i... ...; each with two small bedsteads, tastefully hung, like the win dows, with red and white drapery. The sitting room is fa mous. Dinner is already laid... ...three; and the napkins are folded in cocked hat fashion. The floors are of red tile. There are no carpets, and not much furniture to speak of; but the... ... afterwards, five hundred persons were reduced to ashes: the whole of that wing of the building having been blown into the air with a terrible explosi... ...ite; one having on its top, a figure with a sword and shield; the other, a winged lion. Not far from these again, a second tower: richest of the rich ... ...the great cathedral, near the roof, I fancied that the great piazza of the Winged Lion was a blaze of cheerful light, and that its whole arcade was th...

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... seen by the country folk hurrying along in the gloom of night, as if on the wings of the wind. His haunts are not confined to the valley, but ex ten... ...stream across his path; and if, by chance, a huge blockhead of a beetle came winging his blundering flight against him, the poor varlet was ready to g... ...eye turned up, as if watching the weather, some with their heads under their wings or buried in their bo soms, and others swelling, and cooing, and b... ... and peaches, hung in gay festoons along the walls, mingled with the gaud of red peppers; and a door left ajar gave him a peep into the best parlor, w... ..., his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage; and the cedar bird, with its red tipt wings and yel low tipt tail and its little monteiro cap of feat... ...eath ern faced race, in homespun coats and breeches, blue stock ings, huge shoes, and magnificent pewter buckles. Their brisk, withered little dames... ...sion. Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses, with their luxurious display of red and white; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch coun try tea tabl...

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...e portier was not satisfied. He finally had it taken up, and then he put it down himself and got it right. At this stage of the proceedings, a narrow ... ...dings, a narrow bright red car- pet was unrolled and stretched from the top of the marble steps to the curbstone, along the center of the black carpet... ... the raven eyed me. Nothing was said during some seconds. Then the bird stepped a little way along his limb to get a better point of observation, lift... ...side, shut one eye and put the other one to the hole, like a possum looking down a jug; then he glanced up with his bright eyes, gave a wink or two wi... ...ke a hole—blamed if I don’t believe it is a hole!’ “Then he cocked his head down and took another look; he glances up perfectly joyful, this time; win... ...ious colors, and belonged to social organizations called “corps.” There were five corps, each with a color of its own; there were white caps, blue cap... ...; it had been neglected by the tourist, it was virgin soil for the liter- ary pioneer. Meantime the knapsacks, the rough walking-suits and the stout w... ... hats, to keep the sun off; gray knapsacks; blue army shirts; blue overalls; leath- ern gaiters buttoned tight from knee down to ankle; high- quarter ... ...ger grew to a frenzy. I finally did what all persons before me have done, clear back to Adam,—resolved to throw something. I reached down and got my w...

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...d through the breathless hush That answered me, the far-off rush Of herald wings came whispering Like music down the vibrant string Of my ascending pr... ...d brown: Standing up or sitting down Little matters, or what gown Or what shoes I wear. T T T T Tav av av av avern ern ern ern ern I’ll keep a little... ...ud oud oud oud Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine,—O mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other! (I, that would not wait to ... ...hem the gate.) Death, I say, my heart is bowed Unto thine,—O mother! This red gown will make a shroud Good as any other! ... ...e round moon, all throats that sing The summer through, and each departing wing, And all the nests that the bared branches show, And all winds that ... ...st and morning knew, Or watch the wind, or listen to the beat Of a bird’s wings too high in air to view,— But you were something more than young and ...