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Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal
Old Virginia: The Pursuit of a Pastoral Ideal

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Tall lilies, white as angels' wings

Tall lilies, white as angels' wings and stately
as the maidens that walked among them

Maude Alice Cowles
Frontispiece to Thomas Nelson Page,
Social Life in Old Virginia before the War, 1897
Facsimile of the lost original
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