Your DAILY Companion From the Almanac Editors
Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring, And all the flowers that in the springtime grow, And dusty roads, and thistles, and the slow Rising of the round moon, all throats that sing The summer through, and each departing wing. –Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950)
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