Word: mosses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...some stiff or special examination, and who are in cap and gown, and these lend a most pleasing variety to the general quaintness-almost weirdness-of the place and day. For really one has the feeling of living in the middle ages, looking upon these old, gray, time-worn, moss-covered edifices and meeting here and there in cloisters and in other unlooked-for places these sombre-seeming youths under these mortar-board caps and in these long, black, flowing gowns. Then there is to be the great ceremony of the commemoration-the public conferring of honorary degrees...
...Moss...
...almost bare of trees. At the bottom of the vale, a chattering brook ripple over smooth stones, and hurried on to join the sea. Just above him the course of the brook turned from east to south-east; and where the valley curved, on the north bank, a pretty moss-covered grotto opened toward the sun. Behind this a cliff suddenly rose a score of feet; while before it a large flat stone formed a convenient floor, reaching from the cave quite to the edge of the brook...
...where she sleeps, my love, upon the moss...
With heaven-blue eyes, and the dark soft-strewn moss...