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Quotation from Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
“Some subterranean stream found an outlet here, was released from darkness. The result was grass and trees and flowers and human life”
Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book I
Cather turns a spring into an image of hidden grace sustaining settlement.
Citation: "Some subterranean stream found an outlet here, was released from darkness. The result was grass and trees and flowers and human life" — Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Book I. (id death-comes-for-the-archbishop-q1)
Portrait: DeathComes ForTheArchbishop, Unknown author, Public domain.
