“Let onion atoms lurk within the bowl
And, scarce suspected, animate the whole.”
Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English writer and clergyman
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“Let first the onion flourish there,
Rose among roots, the maiden-fair,
Wine-scented and poetic soul
Of the capacious salad bowl.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson, book Underwoods
Bk. I, To a Gardener.
Underwoods (1887)
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