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"text": "1849, letter from Leonidas Lent Hamline dated 15 December, 1849, in Walter Clark Palmer, Life and Letters of Leonidas L. Hamline, D.D., New York: Carlton & Porter, 1866, Chapter 15, p. 361,\nHe was a fragrant poison, a zephyred pestilence spread through all the city."
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"text": "1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,\nAh, but the skies are joyous in the spring,\nFrom dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;\nWhite-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do\nBut wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!"
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"text": "1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,\nOh, graciously she led my soul within\nWhere ever and forever went a wind\nIn zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet\nAbout the place, and waves of poppy heat\nAbout us there."
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"text": "1914, Leonard Lanson Cline, untitled sonnet in Poems, Boston: The Poet Lore Company, p. 76,\nAh, but the skies are joyous in the spring,\nFrom dawn to dusk exuberantly blue;\nWhite-tufted oftentimes with clouds that do\nBut wanton in heaven’s zephyred merrying!"
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"text": "1914, Juliane Paulsen (pseudonym of Juliane Grace Hansen), “Poppy Fantasy” in And Then Came Spring, Boston: The Gorham Press, p. 49,\nOh, graciously she led my soul within\nWhere ever and forever went a wind\nIn zephyred streams of poppies coursing sweet\nAbout the place, and waves of poppy heat\nAbout us there."
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