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... wild geese was a sign of seasonal change . For one poet of the Tang Dynasty ( 618-906 ) autumn came when " The first wild goose brushes the Milky Way . " These are lines from another poem of the same period : A chill wind springs up ...
... wild geese was a sign of seasonal change . For one poet of the Tang Dynasty ( 618-906 ) autumn came when " The first wild goose brushes the Milky Way . " These are lines from another poem of the same period : A chill wind springs up ...
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... wild life of Oatman , except as it is part of the landscape . The fierce wild beauty of the natural landscape has a special interest in this place because man has tampered with it in a special way . In the years before and after the ...
... wild life of Oatman , except as it is part of the landscape . The fierce wild beauty of the natural landscape has a special interest in this place because man has tampered with it in a special way . In the years before and after the ...
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... wild ass free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness , And the barren land his dwellings . He scorneth the multitude of the city , Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver . The ...
... wild ass free ? Or who hath loosed the bands of the wild ass ? Whose house I have made the wilderness , And the barren land his dwellings . He scorneth the multitude of the city , Neither regardeth he the crying of the driver . The ...
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