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In a sky of iron the points of the Dipper hung like icicles and Orion flashed his cold fires.

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Edith Wharton
Age: 75 †
Born: 1862
Born: January 24
Died: 1937
Died: August 11
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
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Writer
New York City
New York
Edith Newbold Jones
Edith Newbold Jones Wharton
Hung
Iron
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Dipper
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Icicles
Fire
Orion
Stars
Flashed
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Fires

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