Quote by Hamlin Garland
There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up

There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy. – Hamlin Garland

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Nature
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I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. – Hamlin Garland

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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamour of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers wives. – Hamlin Garland

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