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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:4208
AUTHOR:Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
QUOTATION:The meanest floweret of the vale,
The simplest note that swells the gale,
The common sun, the air, the skies,
To him are opening paradise.
ATTRIBUTION:Ode on the Pleasure arising from Vicissitude. Line 53.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 

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