The Open AirChatto & Windus, 1885 - 270 pages |
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... thousand years this very year . Every year we have been sown , and weeded , and reaped , and garnered . Every year the sun has ripened us , and the rain made us grow ; every year for a thousand years . " " What did you see all that time ...
... thousand years this very year . Every year we have been sown , and weeded , and reaped , and garnered . Every year the sun has ripened us , and the rain made us grow ; every year for a thousand years . " " What did you see all that time ...
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... thousand years after For of course I did not hear them all that time ago myself , dear , but the wheat which was before me . heard them and told me . They told me , too , and I know it is true , that the cuckoo came and called all day ...
... thousand years after For of course I did not hear them all that time ago myself , dear , but the wheat which was before me . heard them and told me . They told me , too , and I know it is true , that the cuckoo came and called all day ...
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... thousand years long forwards , and makes the sun so warm , and the air so sweet , and the butterflies so lovely , and the hum of the bees , and everything so delicious . We cannot have enough of it . " " No , that we cannot , " said ...
... thousand years long forwards , and makes the sun so warm , and the air so sweet , and the butterflies so lovely , and the hum of the bees , and everything so delicious . We cannot have enough of it . " " No , that we cannot , " said ...
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... thousand times , " said the Wheat ; " and each time the furrows smelt sweeter , and this year they smelt sweetest of all . The horses have such glossy coats , and such fine manes , and they are so strong and beautiful . They drew the ...
... thousand times , " said the Wheat ; " and each time the furrows smelt sweeter , and this year they smelt sweetest of all . The horses have such glossy coats , and such fine manes , and they are so strong and beautiful . They drew the ...
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... thousand years , and all the songs , and the sunny days were gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling ...
... thousand years , and all the songs , and the sunny days were gone , and all the people were gone too , who had heard the blackbirds whistle in the oak the lightning struck . And those that are alive now- there will be cuckoos calling ...
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