11 November The literary calendar
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Thought for the day
Buy my flowers—O buy—I pray! The blind girl comes from afar; If the earth be as fair as her children say, These flowers her children are!
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- James Roose-Evans: Fairfielder1920, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- Thomas Adolphus Trollope: Published by Harper and Bros, NY, 1888, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- A. P. Herbert: Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
- James Hanley: Sydney Earnshaw Greenwood, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, resized