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Quote by Philip Larkin
My mother, who hates thunderstorms,Holds up each summer day an

My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, lest swarms
Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there…. – Philip Larkin

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