"Once more their weird laughter of the loons……" — Celia Thaxter
"Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime."
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Celia Thaxter
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24 Quotes by Celia Thaxter
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Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair.
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To stand by the beds at sunrise and see the flowers awake is a heavenly delight.
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One golden day redeems a weary year
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