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Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

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Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Night
Constellations
Whole
Throughout
Loud
Sky
Singing
Hear
Though
Hours

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