"still and anon" meaning in English

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Adverb

Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} still and anon (not comparable)
  1. (literary) Now and then. Tags: literary, not-comparable Synonyms: ever and anon
    Sense id: en-still_and_anon-en-adv-wPtU3xqk Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "1881, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Yes, I remember, and, Still Remember Wailing” published posthumously in George S. Hellman and William P. Trent (eds.), Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, Chicago, 1921, p. 121,\nAnd as across the smoothing sea we roam,\nStill and anon we sang our songs of home."
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