Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down t…

Christina Rossetti
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Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by. ✨ Christina Rossetti (2008). Poems and Prose, p.17, OUP Oxford
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