Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
John Josselyn

Born: 1638
Died: 1675 (aged 37)
Bio: John Josselyn was a seventeenth-century English traveler to New England who wrote with credulity about what he saw and heard during his sojourn there before returning to England.
Known for:
- New-Englands rarities discovered (1672)
- John Josselyn, colonial traveler







