This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
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- A Summer's Evening Meditation.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, Mrs. Barbauld entry; A Summer's Evening Meditation.; Wording and named work checked in Bartlett’s published reference; literary quotations are excerpts. Source identifies the work and locator.
- A Summer's Evening Meditation.
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