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MOUNTAIN Stream ! the Shepherd and his CotAre privileged Inmates of deep solitude :Nor would the nicest Anchorite excludeA field or two of brighter green, or plotOf tillage-ground, that seemeth like a spotOf stationary sunshine : — thou hast viewedThese only, Duddon ! with their paths renewedBy fits and starts, yet this contents thee not.Thee hath some awful Spirit impelled to leave.Utterly to desert, the haunts of men.Though simple thy companions were and few jAnd through this wilderness a passage cleaveAttended but by thy own voice, save whenThe clouds and fowls of the air thy way pursue ! THE RIYER DUDDOM. 21
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