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The Man of Songs

by George MacDonald

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“Thou wanderest in the land of dreams, O man of many songs! To thee what is, but looks and seems; No realm to thee belongs!”
“Seest thou those mountains, faint and far, O spirit caged and tame?” “Blue clouds like distant hills they are, And like is not the same.”
“Nay, nay; I know each mountain well, Each cliff, and peak, and dome! In that cloudland, in one high dell, Nesteth my little home.”

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