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A Bunch of Ugly Little Trespassers

John Keats wrote a sonnet to the cricket (and the grasshopper), waxing on their never-ceasing "poetry of earth." Indeed, the chirp of the common field cricket drifting through an open window has lulled many people into what Keats described as "drowsiness half lost."
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By Jackie Spinner

 
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