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C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917.
Noon-time
A silence, the brief sabbath of an hour,Reigns o’er the fields; the laborer sits withinHis dwelling; he has left his steers awhile,Unyoked, to bite the herbage, and his dogSleeps stretched beside the door-stone in the shade.Now the gray marmot, with uplifted paws,No more sits listening by his den, but stealsAbroad, in safety, to the clover-field,And crops its juicy blossoms.
William Cullen Bryant.