Born into an anti-slavery family of eight children, Howells aided his family by setting type in his journalist father
The scene turns from pleasant to gloomy as the poem begins with an image of a blossoming apple tree and ends with a woman floating in the river, drowned.
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Born into an anti-slavery family of eight children, Howells aided his family by setting type in his journalist father
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