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Foreword These essays , of an old - fashioned kind once called “ the familiar essay , ” have nearly all something to do with nature . But they are less accounts of things seen in it than reflections induced by the experience of seeing ...
Foreword These essays , of an old - fashioned kind once called “ the familiar essay , ” have nearly all something to do with nature . But they are less accounts of things seen in it than reflections induced by the experience of seeing ...
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They are called , after the day , “ Good Friday , 1955. ” The winter browns were there , and the chill wind , No apparent spring in grass or tree , But down below the hill in the long marsh The sun caught the life of open water ...
They are called , after the day , “ Good Friday , 1955. ” The winter browns were there , and the chill wind , No apparent spring in grass or tree , But down below the hill in the long marsh The sun caught the life of open water ...
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A saint 161 on his day was called on to receive a new honor , and with it a new obligation . Great or small , he could thenceforth touch that spot of land and its people with blessings . The place and the nature of his own blessedness ...
A saint 161 on his day was called on to receive a new honor , and with it a new obligation . Great or small , he could thenceforth touch that spot of land and its people with blessings . The place and the nature of his own blessedness ...
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Contents
Something about Swans | 3 |
The Pleasures of Seconds | 21 |
Listening | 37 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Something about Swans: Essays |
| Author | Madeleine Doran |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Wisconsin Press, 1973 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 30 May 2008 |
| ISBN | 0299061701, 9780299061708 |
| Length | 118 pages |
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