Fred Lee Newman, IV Biography

At the Heart of every forest
Lies a clearing green and lush
Where the keepers build their houses
in the boysenberry bush:
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While expediting on the Nile, I found a beast of curious style.
He rose from out the river’s deep; at once I asked, “Please stop the jeep.”
It seemed at first a river horse, but now this claim I can’t endorse;
For, though his nose was broad and flat, and gaping jaws fed tons of fat,
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Fairest of all places: the Valley of Gethru –
Full of light and sunny fruit, with a sparkling river, too.
Its gentle slopes were robed in a hundred shades of green;
Every wind-stirred blade and leaf flashed bright with a dewy sheen.
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They praise the Fireside Poets four:
Wadsworth, Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell,
As they sat by the fire, quill and parchment o'er,
And they carefully formed ev'ry consonant and vowel.
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