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- Sunrise on the Hills.; Bartlett, Familiar Quotations, ninth edition, Henry W. Longfellow entry; Sunrise on the Hills.; Wording and named work checked in Bartlett’s published reference; literary quotations are excerpts. Source identifies the work and locator.
- Sunrise on the Hills.
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