"The silky hush of intimate things, fragrant with my fragrance, steal softly down, so loth to rob me of my last dear concealment."
— P. L. Travers

January 1, 1970

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From a poem (c. 1920) in the Australian publication The Triad, as quoted in Out of the Sky She Came: The Life of P.L. Travers, Creator of Mary Poppins (1999) by Valerie Lawson, [U.S. and U.K. title: Mary Poppins, She Wrote : The Life of P. L. Travers (2006) ]