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with ecstatic music, that the Water-fowl, hastening along at twilight, is swayed by the same longings, that they guide him surely to his journey’s close.
And soon that toil shall end,
Soon shalt thou find a. summer home, and rest,
And scream among my fellows: reeds shall bend
Soon o‘er thy sheltered neat. —Bryant.
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