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Category: Poetry

My Humble But Beautiful Home

March 9, 2019
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| Newspaper Articles, Poetry

Found in the Cedartown Advertiser: December 11, 1879 Oh give me when day is declining, And sunshine is flooding the west, My ivy-clad mound, where reclining, I can watch the birds seeking their rest, And list to their twitter of sorrow Whilst through the dew-breezes they roam To nestle and dream of to-morrow, In my […]

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Museum @ 117 West Ave.

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770-748-4828

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