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Anna E. Hamilton

“This learned I from the shadow of a tree, / That to and fro did sway against a wall — , / Our shadow-selves, our influence, may fall / Where we can never be.”
- Anna E. Hamilton,
- "Influence," in Fanny B. Bates, ed., Between the Lights: Thoughts for the Quiet Hour (1888)

Anna E. Hamilton, Irish poet

(1843 - 1875)