Your DAILY Companion From the Almanac Editors
The shadows have their seasons, too.
The feathery web of the budding maples
cast down upon the sullen lawn
bears but a faint relation to
high summer's umbrageous weight
and tunnellike continuum.
–John Updike (1932–2009)
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