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So fades a summer cloud away So sinks the gale when storms are o'er So gently shuts the eye of day So dies a wave along the shore.

Anna Letitia Barbauld

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Anna Letitia Barbauld
Age: 81 †
Born: 1743
Born: June 20
Died: 1825
Died: March 9
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Leicestershire
England
Anna Laetitia Aiken
Anna Letitia Barbauld
Summer
Storms
Along
Gently
Dies
Cloud
Eye
Fades
Away
Shore
Time
Storm
Shuts
Wave
Sinks
Clouds
Gale

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