Carolina QuotesI know it is a sin For me to sit and grin At him here; But the old three-cornered hat, And the breeches, and all that, Are so queer!
Oliver Wendell Holmes Connected to the Carolinas
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"The Last Leaf", Poems (1836)
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- 1836
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