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The flowers take the tears
of the weeping night
And give them to the sun
for the day's delight.

Source: c. 1900; in My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget, by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.
-- Joseph Seamon Cotter, Jr, ( 1895-1919), US poet; He demonstrated enormous promise as a young poet before his death, from tuberculosis, at the age of twenty-four.

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