 For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone; Laughed the brook for my delight Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to fall; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel pond, Mine the walnut...  John Greenleaf Whittier: A Sketch of His Life - Page 39by John Greenleaf Whittier, Bliss Perry - 1907 - 111 pagesFull view - About this book
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...Humming-birds and honey-bees; For my sport the squirrel played, Plietl the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge...horizon grew Larger grew my riches too ; All the world 1 saw or knew Seemed a complex Chinese toy, Fashioned for a barefoot boy ! Oh, for festal dainties... | |
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 | American literature - 1872 - 660 pages
...For my sport the squirrel played, Plied the snouted mole his spade; For my taste the blackberry-cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for...Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden-wall, Talked with me from fall to fall ; Mine the sand-rimmed pickerel-pond ; Mine the walnut-slopes... | |
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...Humming-birds and honey-bees ; For my sport the squirrel played ; Plied the snouted mole his spade ; For my taste the blackberry cone Purpled over hedge and stone ; Laughed the brook for my delight 38 Through the day and through the night, Whispering at the garden wall, Talked with me from fall to... | |
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