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We raised a simple prayer
Before we left the spot,
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I went to turn the grass once after one
Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.
Cut grass lies frail:
Brief is the breath
Mown stalks exhale,
The fire in leaf and grass
so green it seems
each summer the last summer.
in the grass near you
your scions are uprising,
fernlike, trustful.
Walk in this faithless grass with studious tread,
Lest mice, weasels, germane beasts, too soon
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It appears that in a forest like this the great majority of flowers, shrubs, and grasses are confined to the banks of the rivers a ...
The white man's mullein soon reigned in Indian corn-fields, and sweet-scented English grasses clothed the new soil. Where, then, c ...
The virtue of making two blades of grass grow where only one grew before does not begin to be superhuman.
There was another island visible ... but we learned afterward that it was not inhabited, had only been used as a pasture for cattl ...
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