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Up came the sun, and drank the dew.

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Emily Carr
Age: 73 †
Born: 1871
Born: December 13
Died: 1945
Died: March 2
Artist
Autobiographer
Painter
Writer
M. Emily Carr
Emily M. Carr
Klee Wyck
Dew
Drank
Sun
Came
Morning

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So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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