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March 31, 2009



March 31, 1920 to September 24, 2014 are the dates for Deborah Mitford Cavendish, a Duchess of Devonshire. She was the last one of the Mitford sisters, that frilly edge of 20th century history. She was listed as an author on a number of books, including, The Garden of Chatsworth. In this book the Duchess quoted an architect on the kinds of wildflowers growing at Chatsworth, and here is an edited version of this list:

....
dog violet
ox-eye daisy
mouse-eared hawk weed
cat's ear
bird's foot trefoil
harebell
....

Somebody else said (didn't they?) that lists can be poetry. This list sounds like a poetic menagerie.

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