Word: dews
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...instrument lately introduced in the Pierian Sodality by a medical student, and murmuring, "Somebody's coming when the dew-drops fall...
When the glistening dew is falling...
Dulled by the dew-filmed alabaster...
When I hear - but in memory - thy voice, soft falling as dew-drops on roses...
...sometimes, as well as in drawing-rooms. The backwoods girl was a lady. Not all the wildness of rough swamp or grim shaggy mountain could make her spirit other than a gentle one. Nature made her in the mood in which she made the roses, the sunlight, and the dew, and she made her one with all of them. She was a poem, this lady of the wilderness,- her mind was a mirror of the divine life of nature. It is not true that 'men must have enough knowledge of the world to see the vanity of it' before solitude...