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• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie
  and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop....
• So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage leaf to make an apple pie
  and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street pops its head into the shop....
• Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away In statue-like repose.
  -- James Aldrich (1810-1856) -- A Death-Bed...
• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
  Henry David Thoreau...
• I am going a long way With these thou seest--if indeed I go (For all my mind is clouded with a doubt)-- To the island-valley of Avilio
  Where falls not hail or rain or any snow, Nor ever wind blows loudly...
• Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow, And everywhere that Mary went, the lamb was sure to go.
  It followed her through rain or snow, lightning, sleet or hail....