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We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,— For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
We figure to ourselves The thing we like; and then we build it up, As chance will have it, on the rock or sand,— For thought is tired of wandering o'er the world, And homebound Fancy runs her bark ashore.
Approximate author period: c. 909 AD · medieval
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- Sir Henry Taylor
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- Approximate author period: c. 909 AD · medieval
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Philip Van Artevelde. Part i. Act i. Sc. 5.
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