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gives the following picture:— In the upper of a little wooden house of two stories near the Delaware river
comrades, With the life-long love of comrades, 'I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the rivers
picturesqueness, and oceanic amplitude and rush of these great cities, the unsurpassed situation, rivers
Always, and more and more, as I cross the east and north rivers, the ferries, or with the pilots in their
Winds blow south, or winds blow north, Day come white or night come black, Home, or rivers and mountains
Earth of shine and dark, mottling the tide of the river!
most dewy sentiments and kindly human feelings, like the cool and rapid rushing of a mountain-born river
What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
your own shape and countenance—persons, substances, beasts, the trees, the running rivers, the rocks
, manfully, and appositely expressed—and a filibuster-like daring running, like a strong, vigorous river