“The Maple puts her corals on in May,
While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling,
To be in tune with what the robins sing.”

Sonnet, The Maple http://www.theatlantic.com/ideastour/archive/lowell.mhtml (1875)

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

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