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to go and see it ; and for his sake and its 

 own, as well as for my own sake and the 

 reader's, I wish I could show it as it was. 

 It rises before me at this moment, like the 

 rhododendron cliffs on Walden's Ridg-e, and 

 wiU do so, I hope, to my dying day. 



