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Collected poems of Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau, Henry David (1817-1862)
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Collected poems of Henry Thoreau
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NOON
What time the bittern, solitary bird,
Hides now her head amid the whispering fern,
And not a paddock vexes all the shore—
Nor feather ruffles the incumbent air,
Save where the wagtail interrupts the noon.
Collected poems of Henry Thoreau