Elaine Goodale Eastman, Goldenrod.
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Nature lies disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,— Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart; Yet that slackened grasp doth hold Store of pure and genuine gold; Quick thou comest, strong and free, Type of all the wealth to be,— Goldenrod!
— Elaine Goodale Eastman on Goldenrods
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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Nature lies disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,— Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart; Yet that slackened grasp doth hold Store of pure and genuine gold; Quick thou comest, strong and free, Type of all the wealth to be,— Goldenrod!" in the context of "Elaine Goodale Eastman, Goldenrod." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Goldenrods" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 326.)
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About Elaine Goodale Eastman
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
About Elaine Goodale Eastman
Elaine Goodale Eastman (1863–1953) was an American poet along with her sister of Dora Read Goodale. The sisters published their first poetry as children still living at home, and were included in Edmund Clarence Stedman's classic An American Anthology (1900).
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