# Quote — F.Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

> The shadow of a dove
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> Falls on the cote, the trees are filled with wings;
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> And down the valley through the crying trees
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> The body of the darker storm flies; brings
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> With its new air the breath of sunken seas
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> And slender tenuous thunder . . .
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> But I wait . . .
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> Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain —
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> Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate,
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> Happier winds that pile her hair;
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> Again
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> They tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air
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> Upon me, winds that I know, and storm.

- Author: [F.Scott Fitzgerald](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald.md)
- Book: [This Side of Paradise](https://www.leafyquotes.com/fscott-fitzgerald/this-side-of-paradise.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/F._Scott_Fitzgerald#This_Side_of_Paradise_(1920)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
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