adj.
1. felled and roughly shaped by hewing: hewn logs.
2. given a rough surface: hewn stone.
His lips and hands had been hewn
By sandy storms of strewed feelings
By stray splinters of servitude;
His heart, pristine.
Thomas Cole appears courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution
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I have always loved this word. (I'm saying it aloud to myself.)
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