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<Author>Thoreau, Henry David</Author>
<Title>A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers</Title>
<Edition>[Prose Works. Selections.] Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., 1985</Edition>
<Date>1845-1847</Date>
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<loc><locdoc>ThoWCMR2</locdoc><milestone n=2>
<l>Where'er thou sail'st who sailed with me, </l>
<l>Though now thou climbest loftier mounts, </l>
<l>And fairer rivers dost ascend, </l>
<l>Be thou my Muse, my Brother --. </l>
</loc><loc><locdoc>ThoWCMR3</locdoc><milestone n=3>
<l>I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore, </l>
<l>By a lonely isle, by a far Azore, </l>
<l>There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek, </l>
<l>On the barren sands of a desolate creek. </l>
</loc><loc><locdoc>ThoWCMR4</locdoc><milestone n=4>
<l>I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, </l>
<l>New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; </l>
<l>Many fair reaches and headlands appeared, </l>
<l>And many dangers were there to be feared; </l>
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