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Mary Oliver, “The Summer Day” (1992)
This may well be the last weekend of the summer in The Hague, and the sunshine is abundant. We’ve had a full week of real summer — hot, blue sky days streaked with gold. Everyone I talk to mentions their hope that plans will all be cancelled so that they can get down to the beach.
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