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Seasonal Beauty

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How God Created the Arctic Tern

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If Still Your Orchards Bear. Edna St. Vincent Millay

Brother, that breathe the August airTen thousand years from now,And smell—if still your orchards bearTart apples on the bough— The early windfall under the tree,And see the red fruit shine,I cannot think your thoughts will beMuch different from mine. Should at that moment the full moonStep forth upon the hill,And memories hard to bear at noon,By moonlight harder still,Form in the shadow of the trees, —Things that you could not spareAnd live, … Continue reading

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To Summer By William Blake

O Thou who passest thro’ our vallies in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, allay the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou, O Summer,Oft pitched’st here thy golden tent, and oft Beneath our oaks hast slept, while we … Continue reading

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Thoughts In A Garden

How vainly men themselves amazeTo win the palm, the oak, or bays,And their uncessant labours seeCrown’d from some single herb or tree,Whose short and narrow-verged shadeDoes prudently their toils upbraid;While all the flowers and trees do closeTo weave the garlands … Continue reading

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Fall, Leaves, Fall Emily Bronte

Fall, leaves, fall; die, flowers, away;Lengthen night and shorten day;Every leaf speaks bliss to meFluttering from the autumn tree.I shall smile when wreaths of snowBlossom where the rose should grow;I shall sing when night’s decayUshers in a drearier day. From A … Continue reading

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Bobbie, The Wonder Dog Who Walked 2,500 Miles to Home

KAUSHIK PATOWARY  AUG 4, 2021  In August 1923, Bobbie—an average-looking collie puppy—accompanied his owners, the Braizer family, on a cross-country summer road trip from their home in Silverton, Oregon, to Wolcott, Indiana, where they were visiting some relatives. While filling up … Continue reading

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The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards: Winners and Honorable Mentions

Audubon Photography Awards Thousands of people entered photographs and—for the first time— videos in this year’s contest. The finest images showed birdlife at its most tranquil, clever, and powerful. By The Editors Summer 2021 Popular Stories The 2021 Audubon Photography Awards: Winners … Continue reading

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An Autumn Evening By Lucy Maud Montgomery

Dark hills against a hollow crocus sky Scarfed with its crimson pennons, and below The dome of sunset long, hushed valleys lie Cradling the twilight, where the lone winds blow And wake among the harps of leafless trees Fantastic runes … Continue reading

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A Girl’s Garden by Robert Frost

A NEIGHBOR of mine in the village Likes to tell how one spring When she was a girl on the farm, she did A childlike thing. One day she asked her father To give her a garden plot To plant … Continue reading

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