Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the western main;
Where wild Oswego spreads her swamps around,
And Niagara stuns with thundering sound.
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Line 409.Oliver Goldsmith
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The artist's main business is to train his eye to see,then to probe and then to train his hand to work in sympathy with his eye.
John Nash
A country has the Jews it deserves. Just as mosquitoes can thrive and settle only in swamps, likewise the former can only thrive in the swamps of our sins.
Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
When dark clouds full with new waters are thundering repeatedly, the ruttish wild elephants respond by trumpeting, on the premise that it is the she-elephant's call.
Kalidasa
Plac'd far amid the melancholy main.
James Thomson
The negligence of Nature wide and wild,
Where, undisguised by mimic art, she spreads
Unbounded beauty to the roving eye.James Thomson
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