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The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.

James Russell Lowell

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James Russell Lowell
Age: 72 †
Born: 1819
Born: February 22
Died: 1891
Died: August 12
Diplomat
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Cambridge
Massachusetts
Drowsy
Buttercups
Tops
Gild
Lawn
Sweetens
Lawns
Stumbles
July
Clover
Bees
Clovers
Summer
Buttercup
Among
Dandelions

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