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Midsummer |
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Title: Midsummer Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes [More Titles by Holmes] HERE! sweep these foolish leaves away, Not that,--the palm-tree's rustling leaf I hate these roses' feverish blood! Rain me sweet odors on the air, Who knows it not,--this dead recoil O Nature! bare thy loving breast, So, curtained by a singing pine, [The end] GO TO TOP OF SCREEN |