Of Discovery & Destiny: An Anthology of American Writers and the American LandRobert C. Baron, Elizabeth Darby Junkin An anthology of poetry, short stores, and excerpts from longer works about the American experience of the land and nature by a variety of American authors past and present. |
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Page 135
... sound of its fugue . A musical notebook lies open - alto and soprano clefs , notes tied and trills , turned notes , indications of arpeggio and glissando . Plunge your ear in suddenly -how it vanishes . Take the surface of the river be ...
... sound of its fugue . A musical notebook lies open - alto and soprano clefs , notes tied and trills , turned notes , indications of arpeggio and glissando . Plunge your ear in suddenly -how it vanishes . Take the surface of the river be ...
Page 184
... sound had swelled from rhythmic pound and beat to a mighty and appalling roar . Only the battlements of the upper air , assailed in storm by the rip- ping of lightning , could send back such thunder as now rose from the shaking earth ...
... sound had swelled from rhythmic pound and beat to a mighty and appalling roar . Only the battlements of the upper air , assailed in storm by the rip- ping of lightning , could send back such thunder as now rose from the shaking earth ...
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... SOUND - GARD BODY ... A DOWN TO EARTH SPACE CAPSULE . New Sound - Gard body from John Deere , an " earth space capsule " to protect and encourage the American farmer at his job of being " Breadwinner to a world of families . " Outside ...
... SOUND - GARD BODY ... A DOWN TO EARTH SPACE CAPSULE . New Sound - Gard body from John Deere , an " earth space capsule " to protect and encourage the American farmer at his job of being " Breadwinner to a world of families . " Outside ...
Contents
John and Mildred Teal Life and Death of the Salt Marsh | 14 |
Hal Borland High Wide and Lonesome | 30 |
William W Warner Beautiful Swimmers | 48 |
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