Epes Sargent (1813–1880) American editor, poet and playwright
The Heart's Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The cold winds sweeping the mountain-height,
And pathless was the dreary wild,
And ’mid the cheerless hours of night
A mother wandered with her child:
As through the drifting snows she press’d,
The babe was sleeping on her breast.”
The Snow Storm.
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