“O’er folded blooms
On swirls of musk,
The beetle booms adown the glooms
And bumps along the dusk.”

—  James Whitcomb Riley

The Beetle.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet from Indianapolis 1849–1916

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