Kingsbury Sketches: A Truthful and Succinct Account of the Doings and Misdoings of the Inhabitants of Pine Grove; Their Private Trials and Public TribulationsG. W. Carlton, 1875 - 296 pages |
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Kingsbury Sketches: A Truthful and Succinct Account of the Doings and ... John H. Kingsbury No preview available - 2015 |
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Page 74 - ... two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Page 112 - The lark is up to meet the sun, The bee is on the wing, The ant her labor has begun, The woods with music ring. Shall birds and bees and ants be wise, While I my moments waste? Oh, let me with the morning rise, And to my duties haste.