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Waking one morning In a pleasant land, By a river flowing Over golden sand:— Whence flow ye, waters, O’er your golden sand? We come flowing From the Silent Land. Whither flow ye, waters, O’er your golden sand? We go flowing To the Silent Land. And what is this fair realm? A grain of golden sand In the great darkness Of the Silent Land.
Waking one morning In a pleasant land, By a river flowing Over golden sand:— Whence flow ye, waters, O’er your golden sand? We come flowing From the Silent Land. Whither flow ye, waters, O’er your golden sand? We go flowing To the Silent Land. And what is this fair realm? A grain of golden sand In the great darkness Of the Silent Land.
Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- James Thomson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1724 AD · early modern
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 95 · printed citation: James Thomson (“B.V.”) · compiler notes excluded
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