“The south wind searches for the flowers whose fragrance late he bore,
And sighs to find them in the wood and by the stream no more.”

—  William Cullen Bryant

Death of the Flowers http://www.bartleby.com/248/85.html (1832), st. 4, lines 23-24

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American romantic poet and journalist 1794–1878

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