76 Quotes by James Whitcomb Riley

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    The master-hand whose pencils trace / This wondrous landscape of the morn / Is but the sun, whose glowing face.

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    Spangled with the shine and shade / I see the rivers raveled out / In strands of silver, slowly fade / In threads of light along the glade.

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    Over all the waking earth / The tears of night are brushed away / And eyes are lit with love and mirth / And benisons of richest worthGo up to bless the new-born day.

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    The Beautiful City! Forever / Its rapturous praises resound; / We fain would behold it — but never / A glimpse of its dory is found:

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