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with ecstatic music, that the Water-fowl, hastening along at 

 twilight, is swayed by the same longings, that they guide 

 him surely to his journey's close. 



And soon that toil shall end, 

 Soon shalt thou find a summer home, and rest, 

 And scream among thy fellows : reeds shall bend 



Soon o'er thy sheltered nest. BRYANT. 

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