Quote#Nature
Commute with me, my Love, and be merry
Quote byArthur Guiterman · 1871–1943
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Laughing Muse (1915), "The Passionate Suburbanite to His Love".
English (original)
Commute with me, my Love, and be merry; How vain in the City to dwell When apple-trees blow in Dobbs' Ferry And lilacs adorn New Rochelle! White Plains is the Garden of Allah And Pelham's the Pearl of the Sea; There's bliss in the name of Valhalla— Oh, fly to the Suburbs with me!
— Arthur Guiterman
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