“The sun is coming down to earth, and the fields and the waters shout to him golden shouts.”

—  George Meredith

Source: The Ordeal of Richard Feverel http://www.gutenberg.org/files/4412/4412.txt (1859), Ch. 19.

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British novelist and poet of the Victorian era 1828–1909

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