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The story of my house (1891)

Ellwanger, George H. (George Herman), 1848-1906 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 150

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ouds when thetree-toad croaks and the hair-bird trills.The bluebird warbles, it is spring; athousand throats proclaim the summer.Sounds from the woods, sounds from thewaters, sounds from the fields, sounds fromthe air! The infinite beauty of sound! Arenot Natures voices one of her most endear-ing… … VIII. MY INDOOR GARDEN. ^Tell, if thou canst, and truly, whence doth comeThis camphire, storax, spikenard, galbanum;These musks, these ambers, and those other smellsSweet as the vestry of the oracles. Hesperides. contrasted with the bleaknesswithout, the greenhouses andconservatory possess an…

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