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 He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for 
his guide.
 [Fr., read more 
 He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for 
his guide.
 [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent 
ou l'on veut aller.] 
 "O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
 And call the cattle home,
  And call the cattle read more 
 "O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
 And call the cattle home,
  And call the cattle home,
   Across the sands o' Dee;"
    The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam
     And all alone went she. 
 Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
 [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins read more 
 Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.
 [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent 
ou l'on veut aller.] 
 How bright the sunshine dances in its joy,
 O'er the still flow of this majestic river!  
 How bright the sunshine dances in its joy,
 O'er the still flow of this majestic river! 
 Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,
 O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;
  The fragrant birch and hawthorn read more 
 Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore,
 O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green;
  The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar
   Twined amorous round the raptures scene. 
 Yet I will look upon thy face again,
 My own romantic Bronx, and it will be
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 Yet I will look upon thy face again,
 My own romantic Bronx, and it will be
  A face more pleasant than the face of men.
   Thy waves are old companions, I shall see
    A well remembered form in each old tree
     And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy. 
 How sweet to move at summer's eve
 By Clyde's meandering stream,
  When Sol in joy is seen read more 
 How sweet to move at summer's eve
 By Clyde's meandering stream,
  When Sol in joy is seen to leave
   The earth with crimson beam;
    When islands that wandered far
     Above his sea couch lie,
      And here and there some gem-like star
       Re-opes its sparkling eye. 
 Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river,
 Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.  
 Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river,
 Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever. 
 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
 A stately pleasure-dome decree;
  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
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 In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
 A stately pleasure-dome decree;
  Where Alph, the sacred river ran,
   Through caverns measureless to man
    Down to a sunless sea.