“The stars of midnight shall be dear
To her; and she shall lean her ear
In many a secret place
Where rivulets dance their wayward round,
And beauty born of murmuring sound
Shall pass into her face.”
Three years she grew in Sun and Shower.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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