“The birch, most shy and lady-like of trees,
Her poverty, as best she may, retrieves,
And hints at her foregone gentilities
With some saved relics of her wealth of leaves.”

An Indian Summer Reverie http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1164/, st. 8 (1846)

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American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819–1891

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