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the mated pairs of the birds have flocked together: In domestic geese the mated pairs often live together for life; and among the wild geese this, doubtless, is often true.
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may I be awake to hear you: In what sense “awake”?
The wild geese are passing—southward: the end of the autumn, the sign that winter is here.
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