“What dost thou bring to me, O fair To-day,
That comest o'er the mountains with swift feet?”
Julia Caroline Dorr (1825–1913) American writer
To-Day; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).
“Seeing only what is fair,
Sipping only what is sweet,
Thou dost mock at fate and care.”
To the humble Bee
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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