“Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,
Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,
Silent above the flowers, her children lost,
Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.”

— Richard Henry Stoddard

Ode.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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American poet 1825–1903

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