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Quotation from Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“For each of those six pomegranate seeds you must spend one month of every year in King Pluto's palace.”

Nathaniel Hawthorne (spoken by Ceres)

Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds (Project Gutenberg #976)

Portrait of Nathaniel Hawthorne

Ceres learns that her returned daughter tasted six seeds and must go back underground for half of every year.

Citation: "For each of those six pomegranate seeds you must spend one month of every year in King Pluto's palace." — Nathaniel Hawthorne, Tanglewood Tales, The Pomegranate Seeds (Project Gutenberg #976). (id tanglewood-tales-q7)

Portrait: Tanglewood.Tales.cover, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Public domain.

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