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ing a yellow warbler , that one knows in May in the shrubbery ( 19 on Observatory Hill , dart after midges in the seaweed on a granite rock thrusting into the Atlantic spray ; or hearing the bodiless voice of the hermit thrush one ...
ing a yellow warbler , that one knows in May in the shrubbery ( 19 on Observatory Hill , dart after midges in the seaweed on a granite rock thrusting into the Atlantic spray ; or hearing the bodiless voice of the hermit thrush one ...
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If at that time one were to stand on a certain hill to the east of Desert Hot Springs in the Colorado Desert and were to pick just the right spot , a rise of ground to the west would quite shut out the view of the small town .
If at that time one were to stand on a certain hill to the east of Desert Hot Springs in the Colorado Desert and were to pick just the right spot , a rise of ground to the west would quite shut out the view of the small town .
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To the northeast , against the hills , lived an eccentric of sorts - artist , adventurer , “ discoverer ” of the ... “ Miracle Hill ” was his name for the height above the little oasis of palms where flowed two springs , one hot and one ...
To the northeast , against the hills , lived an eccentric of sorts - artist , adventurer , “ discoverer ” of the ... “ Miracle Hill ” was his name for the height above the little oasis of palms where flowed two springs , one hot and one ...
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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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