Cold morning Quote by Thomas Hardy

““To be lectured because the lecturer saw her in the cold morning light of open-shuttered disillusion was exasperating.””

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“Then she gave one last burst of music. The white Moon heard it, and she forgot the dawn, and lingered on in the sky. The red rose heard it, and it trembled all over with ecstasy, and opened its petals to the cold morning air. Echo bore it to her purple cavern in the hills, and woke the sleeping shepherds…

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