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In a neglected orchard, sunsteeped and made drowsy by the murmur of bees, they talked with Shakespeare; the playwright, his
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He stole up the velvety pathway -- his cottage was sunsteeped and still;
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Butterflies drowsed in the noon-heat; coverts were sunsteeped and still.
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Yet the English apple is a tame and insipid affair, compared with the intense, sun-colored, and sunsteeped fruit our orchards yield.
Winter Sunshine John Burroughs 1879
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