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Updated: August 24, 2026

I do not remember to have met the "shagbark" in poetry before, or that gray lichen-covered stone wall which occurs farther along in the same poem, and which is so characteristic of the older farms of New York and New England. I hardly know what the poet means by "The wide-ranked mowers wading to the knee,"

John Burroughs - The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton