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I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods.

— Richard Hovey Along the Trail (1898)

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For ’t is always fair weather
When good fellows get together
With a stein on the table and a good song ringing clear.

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Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,
Who gives and asks no payment.

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Fair weather weddings make fair weather lives.

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Praise be to you, O hills, that you can breathe
Into our souls the secret of your power!

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The people blossoms armies and puts forth
The splendid summer of its noiseless might.

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