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How the silver chorus weaves in the sun and 'neath the eaves,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume VI The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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No marble walls surround you, straw thatched your lowly eaves,
Welsh Lyrics of the Nineteenth Century Edmund O. Jones
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Tear their hook'd wings from out the mildew'd eaves,
Cromwell Alfred B. Richards
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Auguste climbed the stairs to his old cot under the eaves,
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The little attic bedroom, the window 'neath the eaves,
Cape Cod Ballads, and Other Verse Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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Then through the woods, that drip with all their eaves,
Poems Madison Julius Cawein 1889
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Thither Rahero crept, and dropped from the burning eaves,
Ballads Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But when the first birds chirped about their eaves,
Poems Christina Georgina Rossetti 1862
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And often when the wind is up, and wailing round the eaves,
The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens Henry Kendall 1860
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Till the wolves and the catamounts troop from their eaves,
The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes — Complete Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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