Moccasin Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 519.
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With careless joy we thread the woodland ways
And reach her broad domain.
Thro' sense of strength and beauty, free as air.
We feel our savage kin,
And thus alone with conscious meaning wear
The Indian's moccasin!
— Elaine Goodale Eastman
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "With careless joy we thread the woodland ways
And reach her broad domain.
Thro' sense of strength and beauty, free as air.
We feel our savage kin,
And thus alone with conscious meaning wear
The Indian's moccasin!" in the context of "Moccasin Flower, reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 519." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Elaine Goodale Eastman
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
About Elaine Goodale Eastman
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
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