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O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
O'er folded blooms On swirls of musk, The beetle booms adown the glooms And bumps along the dusk.
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- James Whitcomb Riley (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 64 · quotation 16 · James Whitcomb Riley · The Beetle.
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