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A Dream of Summer

John Greenleaf Whittier
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“The Night is Mother of the Day,
The Winter of the Spring,
And ever upon old Decay
The greenest mosses cling.”

John Greenleaf Whittier A Dream of Summer

A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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