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  • If with me you'd fondly stray Over the hills and far away.

    -John Gay
      The Beggar's Opera, act1, sc.13, air16.

  •   Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.

    - Alexander Pope
      An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.99^104.

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