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The Earth

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Which seems so barren once gave birth
To heroes—who oerran her plains,
Who plowed her seas and reaped her grains




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    The Ghosts
    by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows;