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I wandered by the brookside,
I wandered by the mill;
I could not hear the brook flow,
The noisy wheel was still.

— Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton

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But on and up, where Nature’s heart
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Grand Thoughts that never can be wearied out,
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