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We saw a raven very high above us. It called out, and the dome of the sky seemed to echo the sound. It called again and again as it flew onwards, and the mountains gave back the sound, seeming as if from their centre; a musical bell-like answering to the bird's hoarse voice.

— Dorothy Wordsworth

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Cf. Wordsworth's The Excursion, Book 4, lines 1175-87.

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