“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”
Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles
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