“A wail in the wind is all I hear;
A voice of woe for a lover's loss.”
William Ellery Channing (poet) (1818–1901) American writer
Tears in Spring, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.”
— Khaled Hosseini, book The Kite Runner
Source: The Kite Runner
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