Quote#Friendship
No visitors shall yonder valley find
Quote byBayard Taylor · 1825–1878
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Poet's Journal (1863), "Third Evening"..
English (original)
No visitors shall yonder valley find. Except the spirits of the rain and wind: Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed In this dim crypt, where shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
— Bayard Taylor
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