Your DAILY Companion From the Almanac Editors
And only where the forest fires have sped, Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands, A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head, And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed, It hides the scars with almost human hands. –Emily Pauline Johnson (1861-1913)
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