“Desire dazzles, and the sun gives life.”
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“Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!”
— Walt Whitman, book Fulles d'herba
Drum-Taps. Give me the splendid Silent Sun
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Leaves of Grass
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