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The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
The light died in the low clouds. Falling snow drank in the dusk. Shrouded in silence, the branches wrapped me in their peace. When the boundaries were erased, once again the wonder: that *I* exist.
Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
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- Dag Hammarskjöld
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- Approximate author period: c. 1933 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Dag Hammarskjöld: life dates 1905 to 1961. Wikidata Q1267, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1267 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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