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No price is set on the lavish summer June may be had by the poorest comer.
James Russell Lowell
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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
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Cambridge
Massachusetts
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June
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Summer
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