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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace.

Walter de La Mare

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Walter de La Mare
Age: 83 †
Born: 1873
Born: April 25
Died: 1956
Died: June 22
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Writer
Charlton
London
Walter Ramal
Walter John de la Mare
Light
Shed
May
Waking
Able
Neither
Infected
Whole
Hours
Sorrowful
Happy
Dreary
Upon
Recover
Lost
Gloom
Dream
Trace

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