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1820–1897

XXXVI.

Jean Ingelow

But who shall chronicle the ways Of common folk — the nights and days Spent with rough goatherds on their snows, Of travellers come whence no man knows,

Then gone aloft on some sharp height In the dumb peace and the great light Amid brown eagles and wild roes?

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