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  • a girdle of orange, Puritan-pumpkin colored girders braces the tingling Statehouse, shaking over the excavations, as it faces Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens 'shaking Civil War relief, propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake.

    Lance Mannion: 2009

  • a girdle of orange, Puritan-pumpkin colored girders braces the tingling Statehouse, shaking over the excavations, as it faces Colonel Shaw and his bell-cheeked Negro infantry on St. Gaudens 'shaking Civil War relief, propped by a plank splint against the garage's earthquake.

    Thoughts on setting out to read the collected correspondence of the poets Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop 2009

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