Word: earth
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...future avalanche. There, niggard earth...
...absent, and that tenderness is lacking which, enveloping us in an atmosphere of affection and purity, puts us out of the power of all evil, and preserves from all impure contact, - in the absence of this jealous and anxious solicitude of a mother for what she holds dearest upon earth, evil thoughts come to light, and soon get the upper hand. Upon these tender natures the slightest pernicious influence makes itself profoundly felt. A very small blemish is enough to spoil the best fruits, and it is the most delicate that are most accessible to nourishment...
Which Jove upon the earth doth yield to thee...
...linger on the barren earth...
Then, when the Immortals to the earth descended...