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There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
There's a dance of leaves in that aspen bower, There's a titter of winds in that beechen tree, There's a smile on the fruit, and a smile on the flower, And a laugh from the brook that runs to the sea.
Approximate author period: c. 1836 AD · industrial
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- Author or tradition
- William Cullen Bryant
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- Approximate author period: c. 1836 AD · industrial
author lifetime midpoint (1794–1878)
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 284; printed byline: William Cullen Bryant; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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