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Jehiel Keeler Hoyt Quotes

1820–1895

Jehiel Keeler Hoyt (1820–1895) was an author of prose and verse. He was the original editor and namesake of Hoyt's Cyclopaedia of Practical Quotations.

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Yes, sing the song of the orange tree,
With its leaves of velvet green;
With its luscious fruit of sunset hue,
The fairest that ever were seen;
The grape may have its bacchanal verse,
To praise the fig we are free;
But homage I pay to the queen of all,
The glorious orange tree.

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