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Gold in the Mountain

by Herman Melville

Herman Melville

Gold in the mountain,
And gold in the glen,
And greed in the heart,
Heaven having no part,
And unsatisfied men.




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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

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    The Perch
    by Galway Kinnell
    There is a fork in a branch of an ancient, enormous maple, one of a grove of such trees, where I climb sometimes and sit and look out over miles of valleys and low hills.