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possibility of sleep, he would turn his 

 thoughts to our country home, and plan 

 the main lines of the avenues and paths 

 to be made the following summer, till, 

 lulled by the memory of its whispering 

 pines, and tranquillized by pictured fan- 

 tasies of mountains, woods, and summer 

 skies, " sleep that knits up the ravelled 

 sleeve of care " would come at last, and 

 draw its veil of sweet oblivion. 



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