Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.
"Ode". "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.
![Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands, Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands, Silent above the flowers, her children lost, Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.](http://cdn.quoteddaily.com/images/richard-henry-stoddard/pale-in-her-fading-bowers-the-summer-standslike-a-new-niobe-with-clasped-handssilent-above-the-flowers-her-children-lostslain.jpg)