such a day

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“O suns and skies and clouds of June,
And flowers of June together,
Ye cannot rival for one hour
October’s bright blue weather.”

By Helen Hunt Jackson

And such a day it was.

Helen Hunt Jackson (1830 -1885) American writer and poet best known as the author of the very popular novel “Ramona” about the ill treatment of Native Americans in southern California. (Ramona was originally published in 1884 and has been reprinted over 300 times since.)

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