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 54
... Spring " May at Monticello " ur speedometer touched 11,000 miles on that eighty- sixth day of our trip . We had been running west through Virginia where May had turned locust trees into creamy clouds of white and fire - pink blazes ...
... Spring " May at Monticello " ur speedometer touched 11,000 miles on that eighty- sixth day of our trip . We had been running west through Virginia where May had turned locust trees into creamy clouds of white and fire - pink blazes ...
Page 57
... spring were manifold . At no other time of year , except in autumn , is there greater variety of color in a woodland than in spring . A thousand and one subtle shadings of green , lost in summer , charact- erize the new foliage . Autumn ...
... spring were manifold . At no other time of year , except in autumn , is there greater variety of color in a woodland than in spring . A thousand and one subtle shadings of green , lost in summer , charact- erize the new foliage . Autumn ...
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... Spring , " ur heralds of spring in northwest Canada bear no resemblance to the tradi- tional and seldom inspire the poet within us : no primroses , lambs , or forsythia here , no ten- der green over the earth and soft unfolding buds ...
... Spring , " ur heralds of spring in northwest Canada bear no resemblance to the tradi- tional and seldom inspire the poet within us : no primroses , lambs , or forsythia here , no ten- der green over the earth and soft unfolding buds ...
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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