"Oh, bring again my heart's content, Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!"
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Song; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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William Allingham
William Allingham (19 March 1824 – November 18, 1889) was an Irish man of letters and poet.
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