Anna Letitia Barbauld - So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the

So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.

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Barbauld, Anna Letitia. "The Death of the Virtuous." The Works of Anna Lætitia Barbauld, edited by Lucy Aikin, vol. 1, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825, p. 340.

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