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The air was cool enough to make the warm sun pleasant on one's back and shoulders, and so clear that the eye could follow a hawk up and up, into the blazing blue depths of the sky.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
Air
Shoulders
Follow
Pleasant
Clear
Depth
Eye
Warm
Back
Sky
Hawk
Enough
Cool
Hawks
Make
Sun
Blazing
Blue
Depths

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