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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.

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Willa Cather
Age: 73 †
Born: 1873
Born: December 7
Died: 1947
Died: April 24
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Willa Sibert Cather
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Evening
Cloak
Animal
Presence
Cloaks
Energy
Wide
Stepped
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Spent
Visiting
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Sun
Exhausted
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Edge
World
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Dues
Stimulated
Behinds
Edges
Flung

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