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The Sun-Dial At Morven

by Henry van Dyke

Henry van Dyke

FOR BAYARD AND HELEN STOCKTON
Two hundred years of blessing I record
For Morven's house, protected by the Lord:
And still I stand among old-fashioned flowers
To mark for Morven many sunlit hours.




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