Nathalia Crane (1913–1998) American writer
Impromptu poem, made at the request of reporters, printed in "Markham v. Prodigy" http://jcgi.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,928761,00.html TIME magazine (23 November 1925)
“Behold the grass, the flowerets, and the shrubs
Which of itself alone this land produces.”
— Dante Alighieri, book Purgatorio
Canto XXVII, lines 134–135 (tr. Longfellow).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Purgatorio
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