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Famous quotes containing the word stack:

    ““Farewell to barn and stack and tree,
    Farewell to Severn shore.
    Terence, look your last at me,
    For I come home no more.”
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    “What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun—it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)