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True love is not selfish. In time it accustoms itself to anything which secures happiness for its object.
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
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Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Age: 70 †
Born: 1835
Born: January 29
Died: 1905
Died: April 9
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Cleveland
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Susan Coolidge
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...this pause of rest, This morning hush before the sun.
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The Autumn seems to cry for thee,Best lover of the Autumn-days!
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Every tear is answered by a blossom, Every sigh with songs and laughter blent, April-blooms upon the breezes toss them. April knows her own, and is content.
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Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath Softly and still it grows and grows, Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
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