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I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore

by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore,
By a lonely isle, by a far Azore,
There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek,
On the barren sands of a desolate creek.




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