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The gold-barr'd butterflies to and from And over the waterside wander'd and wove As heedless and idle as clouds that rove And drift by the peaks of perpetual snow.

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Joaquin Miller
Age: 71 †
Born: 1841
Born: November 10
Died: 1913
Died: February 13
Journalist
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Novelist
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Liberty
Indiana
Giles Gaston
Joaquin Miller
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