“Where did you come from baby dear?
Out of the everywhere into the here….
Where did you get your eyes so blue?
Out of the skies as I came through.”

— George MacDonald, book At the Back of the North Wind

At the Back of the North Wind (1871)

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Scottish journalist, novelist 1824–1905

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