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You say,—"We 'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?

From The Biglow Papers by Hughes, Thomas

You say,—"We'd ha' scared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these"?

From Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by Lowell, James Russell

You say, 'We'd ha' seared 'em by growin' in peace, A plaguy sight more then by bobberies like these'?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell