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Weary the cloud falleth out of the sky,
Dreary the leaf lieth low.
All things must come to the earth by and by,
Out of which all things grow.

— Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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Source: (Lord Lytton), The Wanderer, Earth's Havings, Book III. in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 93-96
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