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A silvery brook comes stealing From the shadow of its trees, Where slender herbs of the forest stoop Before the entering breeze.
A silvery brook comes stealing From the shadow of its trees, Where slender herbs of the forest stoop Before the entering breeze.
Approximate author period: c. 1836 AD · industrial
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- William Cullen Bryant
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- Approximate author period: c. 1836 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1794–1878)
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote240 · printed citation: WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: The Unknown Way.
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