Posts Tagged ‘Rebecca Palfrey Utter’
Celebrating John Burrough’s First Book with Rebecca Palfrey Utter’s Poem: The Wake-Robin
“A fair and pleasant vision the nodding blossoms make; And the flower’s name and mission is ‘Wake, Robin, wake!'” April 3, 1837 On this day, the Naturalist, poet, and philosopher John Burroughs was born. John’s first book was called Wake Robin, a common name for the woodland plant known as trillium. In my research,…
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