For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home …

Herman Melville
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For, as when the red-cheeked, dancing girls, April and May, trip home to the wintry, misanthropic woods; even the barest, ruggedest, most thunder-cloven old oak will at least send forth some few green sprouts, to welcome such glad-hearted visitants . . . ✨ Herman Melville (2008). Moby-Dick, p.137, Velvet Element Books
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