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Read & copy the quotation
“Blessings emblazoned that day Everything glowed with a gleam; Yet we were looking away!”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “Blessings emblazoned that day Everything glowed with a…”
Looking backward reveals value that was not fully noticed while the moment was being lived, giving the remembered family scene both warmth and regret.
Where does it come from?
“The Self-Unseeing,” Project Gutenberg #3168. The exclamation closes a poem of retrospective domestic memory and should not be detached from that remembered household scene.
