"Welcome, wild harbinger of spring! To this small nook of earth; Feeling and fancy fondly cling, Round thoughts which owe their birth, To thee, and to the humble spot, Where chance has fixed thy lowly lot."
"Patience wins the race."
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Source: Bernard Barton (1828). “A new year's eve, and other poems”, p.38
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