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thoughts as those who had been here thirty 

 years before. Precious is the power of a 

 first impression. Because I was newly in 

 the country I was constantly under the feel- 

 ing of its past. Hither and thither I went 

 in the region round about, listening at every 

 turn, spying into every bush at the stirring 

 of a leaf or the chirp of a bird ; yet I had 

 always with me the men of '63, and felt 

 always that I was on holy ground. 



