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For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain.

Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Approximate author period: c. 1844 AD · industrial
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