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the old swallow-haunted barns, Brown-gabled, long, and full of seams Through which the moted sunlight streams. And winds blow freshly in to shake The red plumes of the roosted cocks And the loose hay-mow's scented locks, the cattle-yard With the white horns tossing above the wall, the spring-blossoms that drooped over the river, Lighting up the swarming shad, and
"the old swallow-haunted barns, Brown-gabled, long, and full of seams Through which the moted sunlight streams, And winds blow freshly in to shake The red plumes of the roosted cocks And the loose hay-mow's scented locks," "the cattle-yard With the white horns tossing above the wall," the spring-blossoms that drooped over the river, "Lighting up the swarming shad:" and
Miss Cooper may strive in vain, with benevolent intent, to christen her favorite spring-blossoms "May-Wings" and "Gay-Wings," and "Fringe-Cup" and "Squirrel-Cup," and "Cool-Wort" and "Bead-Ruby"; there is no conceivable reason why these should not be the familiar appellations, except the irresistible fact that they are not.
When I turned the next fore-land, I all at once began to see a number of craft, which increased as I advanced, most of them small boats, with some schooners, sloops, and larger craft, the majority a-ground: and suddenly now I was conscious that, mingling with that delicious odour of spring-blossoms profoundly modifying, yet not destroying it was another odour, wafted to me on the wings of the very faint land-breeze: and 'Man, I said, 'is decomposing': for I knew it well: it was the odour of human corruption.
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