Quotation from Dana

By the middle of July our dry meadows are merry with black-eyed Susans, which are laughing from every corner and keeping up a gay midsummer carnival . . . They seem to revel in the long days of blazing sunlight . . .  --Dana (1813-1895)

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Dana in 1865

Source of the quotation above: Thoughts from the Mountains (Heartland Samplers, Inc., 1992)