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Over and over again in Ceylon my surroundings would suddenly remind me of
that verse in Elton's poem: / wonder if it seems to you, Luriana, Lurilee, That all
the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be Are full of trees and changing leaves
, ...
Over and over again in Ceylon my surroundings would suddenly remind me of
that verse in Elton's poem: / wonder if it seems to you, Luriana, Lurilee, That all
the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be Are full of trees and changing leaves
, ...
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kind of country there are no trees and changing leaves, and, as far as my
experience goes, there are no Luriana Lurilees. But over a very large part of
Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham-
bantota in ...
kind of country there are no trees and changing leaves, and, as far as my
experience goes, there are no Luriana Lurilees. But over a very large part of
Ceylon the country is the exact opposite of the sandy austerity of Jaffna and Ham-
bantota in ...
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It was surrounded on all sides by thick jungle and was raised above the jungle so
that the tops of the nearest trees were level with it. On one side of the water hole
and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder, 12 or 15 feet ...
It was surrounded on all sides by thick jungle and was raised above the jungle so
that the tops of the nearest trees were level with it. On one side of the water hole
and about 5 or 6 yards from it rose a great rock or gigantic boulder, 12 or 15 feet ...
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| Title | Growing, an autobiography of the years 1904-1911 |
| Author | Leonard Woolf |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press, 1961 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 256 pages |
| Subjects | › › Authors, English Biography & Autobiography / Literary Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Sri Lanka |
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