Gavrila Derzhavin (1743–1816) Russian poet
Poemː God
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 283.
“Oh, bring again my heart's content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!”
Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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