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  2. I heard a Fly buzz—when I died - Wikipedia

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    The stillness round my form Was like the stillness in the air Between the heaves of storm The eyes beside had wrung them dry, And breaths were gathering sure For that last onset, when the king Be witnessed in his power. I willed my keepsakes, signed away What portion of me I Could make assignable,– and then There interposed a fly,

  3. List of miscellaneous fake news websites - Wikipedia

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    Impostor site of Fox News. Fabricated a story with quotes from fictitious persons. [1] [268] [269] [270] TeaParty.org (1776 Tea Party) TeaParty.org Per PolitiFact. Published false story about Nancy Pelosi. Published stories from WorldNetDaily. Its founder, Dale Robertson, attended a Tea Party protest carrying a sign with a racial slur.

  4. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...

  5. The Four Seasons (Vivaldi) - Wikipedia

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    The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight ...

  6. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - Wikipedia

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    The world in solemn stillness lay To hear the angels sing. Still through the cloven skies they come With peaceful wings unfurled, And still their heavenly music floats O'er all the weary world; Above its sad and lowly plains They bend on hovering wing, And ever o'er its Babel-sounds The blessed angels sing. But with the woes of sin and strife

  7. A Stillness at Appomattox - Wikipedia

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    Preceded by. Glory Road. A Stillness at Appomattox (1953) is a non-fiction history book written by Bruce Catton. [1] It recounts the American Civil War 's final year, [1] describing the campaigns of Ulysses S. Grant in Virginia during 1864 to the end of the war in 1865. It is the final volume of Catton's Army of the Potomac trilogy, having been ...

  8. Calming the storm - Wikipedia

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    Calming the storm. The Storm on the Sea of Galilee by Rembrandt, 1632. Calming the storm is one of the miracles of Jesus in the Gospels, reported in Matthew 8:23–27, Mark 4:35–41, and Luke 8:22–25 (the Synoptic Gospels). This episode is distinct from Jesus' walk on water, which also involves a boat on the lake and appears later in the ...

  9. Sonnets to Orpheus - Wikipedia

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    Original text. Die Sonette an Orpheus at German Wikisource. The Sonnets to Orpheus (German: Die Sonette an Orpheus) [1] are a cycle of 55 sonnets written in 1922 by the Bohemian - Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). It was first published the following year. Rilke, who is "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense ...