Word: yard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...house; during the day we will roam hand in hand through the woods while I pour sweet poetry in her ear; then at even-time we will go to the meadow and bring the cattle home, and I will stand by my dear one in the barn-yard, repeating 'The Cotter's Saturday Night' while she milks the bosky cows. Then in the fall I will leave her, promising, as I press her to my bosom, to return in a week and marry her. Winter will come, but not I; the sweet maid will droop and fade, no longer singing...
...have you carrying my water-pail round and pestering me all day 'pouring sweet poetry in my eye'? I think I see myself! As for your reciting the 'Potter's Saturday Night' while I milk, I guess them clothes of yours ain't meant to travel round our barn-yard much, 'sides, the smell of the yard ain't always agreeable to city folks. And I wasn't sighing about you, but because ma didn't put any doughnuts in my lunch basket; and I looked at you because you looked so like red-headed Sam Smith who is gone...
...entrances to the portion of the Yard fenced off will be between Massachusetts and Harvard, Holworthy and Thayer, Grays and Weld...
From 7.30 to 11.30, there will be illuminations and music in the portion of the Yard fenced...
...exits from the Yard will be between Holworthy and Stoughton, University and Thayer, Massachusetts and Harvard, Grays and Weld, Grays and Matthews...