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Introduction - A Glimpse of Boyhood

by Henry Lawson

Henry Lawson

"Boys out there by the western creeks,
Who hurry away from school,
To climb the spurs of the breezy peaks,
Or dive in the shaded pool"




Quotes of the Day

People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards.
• Oscar Wilde


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    Into the Dusk-Charged Air
    by John Ashbery
    Far from the Rappahannock, the silent Danube moves along toward the sea. The brown and green Nile rolls slowly Like the Niagara's welling descent. Tractors stood on the green banks of the Loire