Quote#Nature
The Night is Mother of the Day
Quote byJohn Greenleaf Whittier · 1807–1892
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Dream of Summer, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
English (original)
The Night is Mother of the Day, The Winter of the Spring, And ever upon old Decay The greenest mosses cling.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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