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The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, Of wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear.
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
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
The Death of the Flowers.
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