Maidens
Maidens is a village in South Ayrshire, Scotland.This picturesque fishing village lies on the Firth of Clyde coast, around 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) north of Turnberry, and 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) west of Maybole. It formerly had its own railway station on the Maidens and Dunure Light Railway.
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“She makes the willow shiver in the sun
For maidens who were wont to sit and gaze
Upon the grass, relinquished to their feet.
She causes boys to pile new plums and pears
On disregarded plate. The maidens taste
And stray impassioned in the littering leaves.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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—For the State of Iowa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)