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...Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 28 9 Time the subtle thief of youth. "How soon hath time" 1. I (1645) 10 f man, and the same transgressions should be visited with equal severity on both man a resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. "II Penseroso" 1. 79 (1645) lie. 52I 12 Come, and...

...and down-to-earth about a cricket's song. Perhaps it's because we associate it with Milton's lines: Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom, Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth. The tall ironweed grows profusely on the roadsides....