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Julia Dorr
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“O darkest Year! O brightest Year! / O changeful Year of joy and woe, / To-day we stand beside thy bier, / Still loth to let thee go!”
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“The year grows rich as it groweth old, / And life's latest sands are its sands of gold!”
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“... how old am I? You must tell. / Just as old as I seem to you!”
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“Grass grows at last above all graves ...”
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“When souls before Thee reverently bow, / Oh, carest Thou what name the lips breathe low / Jove, or Osiris, or the God Unknown ... ?”
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“O Earth! art thou not weary of thy graves? / Dear, patient mother Earth, upon thy breast / How are they heaped from farthest east to west!”
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“A new beatitude I write for thee, / 'Blessed are they who are not sure of things' ...”
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“Wake, Rosalie! Awake! arise!”
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“Summer days are over! / O my one true lover, / Sit we now alone together / In the early autumn weather! / From our nest the birds have flown / To fair dreamlands of their own, / And we see the days go by, / In silence — thou and I!”
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“Life hath its phases manifold, / Yet still the new repeats the old; / There is no truer truth than this: / What was, is still the thing that is.”
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“... come what may, / I have had my day!”
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“Stars will blossom in the darkness, / Violets bloom beneath the snow.”
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“April's rare capricious loveliness.”
Julia Dorr, U.S. poet
(1825 - 1913)
Full name: Julia Caroline Ripley Dorr. She also wrote as Caroline Thomas.