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... bloom . The song of the white - crowned sparrow belongs to the place of my first heeding it to the pale sand and the dark green creosote bushes , bursting with yellow bloom , of the Colorado Desert . Yet I have heard the ― 23 24 song ...
... bloom . The song of the white - crowned sparrow belongs to the place of my first heeding it to the pale sand and the dark green creosote bushes , bursting with yellow bloom , of the Colorado Desert . Yet I have heard the ― 23 24 song ...
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... bloom : little gold - poppies , their yellow flowers no bigger than rue anemones ; a bush of white ratany , its tiny ... blooms , interesting less in them- selves than in bearing witness to the abundant varying of their genus in the ...
... bloom : little gold - poppies , their yellow flowers no bigger than rue anemones ; a bush of white ratany , its tiny ... blooms , interesting less in them- selves than in bearing witness to the abundant varying of their genus in the ...
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... bloom at the touch of water in a brief and occasional spring season . It has , too , for the long reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who , like the desert lilies , the rock wrens , and ...
... bloom at the touch of water in a brief and occasional spring season . It has , too , for the long reach of the imagination , its unobtrusive and mostly illegible signs of earlier men who , like the desert lilies , the rock wrens , and ...
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