| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 61297 |
| QUOTATION: | Calm as that second summer which precedes The first fall of the snow, In the broad sunlight of heroic deeds, The City bides the foe. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Henry Timrod (18281867), U.S. poet. Charleston (l. 14). . .
Oxford Book of American Verse, The. F. O. Matthiessen, ed. (1950) Oxford University Press. |
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