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- Out-of-doors
- n. That part of one’s environment upon which no government has been able to collect taxes. Chiefly useful to inspire poets.
- I climbed to the top of a mountain one day To see the sun setting in glory, And I thought, as I looked at his vanishing ray, Of a perfectly splendid story.
- ’Twas about an old man and the ass he bestrode Till the strength of the beast was o’ertested; Then the man would carry him miles on the road Till Neddy was pretty well rested.
- The moon rising solemnly over the crest Of the hills to the east of my station Displayed her broad disk to the darkening west Like a visible new creation.
- And I thought of a joke (and I laughed till I cried) Of an idle young woman who tarried About a church-door for a look at the bride, Although ’twas herself that was married.
- To poets all Nature is pregnant with grand Ideas — with thought and emotion. I pity the dunces who don’t understand The speech of earth, heaven and ocean.
- Stromboli Smith