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The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2)

Note 181:1 — THIS LIME-TREE BOWER MY PRISON[178:1]

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Some months after I had written this line, it gave me pleasure to find [to observe An. Anth., S. L. 1828] that Bartram had observed the same circumstance of the Savanna Crane. 'When these Birds move their wings in flight, their strokes are slow, moderate and regular; and even when at a considerable distance or high above us, we plainly hear the quill-feathers: their shafts and webs upon one another creek as the joints or working of a vessel in a tempestuous sea.'

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