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| | The Romance of Old New England Rooftrees: Chapter 23 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | It is to the town of Scituate, Massachusetts, one of the most ancient settlements of the old colony, that we trace back the local colour which pervades the poem. |
 | | The wide-spreading "pond," the "mill," the, "dairy-house," the "rock where the cataract fell," and even the "old well," if not the, original "mosscovered bucket" itself, may still be seen just as the poet described them. |
 | | Yet in spite of the changes, one gets fairly well the illusion of the ancient spot, and comes away well content to have quaffed a draught of such excellent water to the memory of this Scituate poet. |
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