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" And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives... "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 528
1851
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The Ladies' Reader: Designed for the Use of Ladies' Schools and Family ...

John William Stanhope Hows - 1860 - 450 pages
...startles in meaftows green, The buttercup catches £ie sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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The White Hills: Their Legends, Landscape, and Poetry

Thomas Starr King - 1860 - 436 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never a leaf nor ft blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like 11 blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature, Volumes 19-20

1862 - 432 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in ils chalice, And there's never a leaf nor a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge ot summer...
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Papers of an undergraduate, a selection from the MSS. of W. T. Edwards [ed ...

William Edwards (of Camberwell) - 1862 - 178 pages
...startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there 's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace ; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer...
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The Poetical Works of James R. Lowell ...: Complete in Two Volumes, Volume 1

James Russell Lowell - 1863 - 338 pages
...nor a blade too mean Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, With the deluge of summer it receives ; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in...
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The old helmet, by the author of 'Wide, wide world'.

Susan Bogert Warner - 1864 - 372 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace." • " MRS. CAXTON," said Mr. Rhys the next morning, when half the breakfast had been passed in silence,...
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The Old Helmet, Volume 2

Susan Warner - 1864 - 376 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys : The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace." " MRS. CAXTOJST," said Mr. Rhys the next morning, when half the breakfast had been passed in silence,...
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The Old Helmet, Volume 2

Susan Warner - 1864 - 376 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice, And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature1** palace." " MRS. CAXTON," said Mr. Rhys the next morning, when half the breakfast had been...
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Effie's Friends, Or, Chronicles of the Woods and Shore

Effie, Lady Augusta Noel - 1865 - 228 pages
...dear, no !" replied the peacock, nothing daunted. THE cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice ; And there's never...blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. ONCE upon a time, in the days of the fairies, many years ago, there lived a little fairy, who had no...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

1865 - 804 pages
...be seen Thrilling back over hills and valleys ; The cowslip startles in meadows green, The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice ; And there's never a leaf or blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace. The little bird sits at his door in the sun, A-tilt...
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