Once more the liberal year laughs out
O’er richer stores than gems or gold:
Once more with harvest song and shout
Is nature’s boldest triumph told.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
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Robert Frost
Retrieving my mail after an extended road trip, I was appalled at what I had failed to notice day to day … the barrage of bank ads urging me to write checks on credit (forget if I could repay or not) and sign up for more credit cards. The real shock was that they comprised over 50% of my accumulated mail and constituted a mini-McKinley mountain of garbage. Which made me think: What other things are slowly but surely forcing their way into our mental space?
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I went to turn the grass once after one
Who mowed it in the dew before the sun.
The dew was gone that made his blade so keen
Before I came to view the levelled scene.
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We’ve all watched kids laughing at a joke, then asking that the joke be retold, and laughing again just as heartily the second time, and finally entreating us to retell the same joke. Somehow, for young children, on the third recounting (if it happens at all), the joke remains as new and funny as the first time it was told.
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