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There is a wonderful country, a country of Cockaigne, they say, / which I dreamed of visiting with an old friend. It is a strange / country, lost in the mists of the North and one might call it / the East of the West, the China of Europe, so freely does a / warm and capricious fancy flourish there, and so patiently and / persistently has that fancy illustrated it with a learned and / delicate vegetation.
A real country of Cockaigne, where everything is beautiful, / rich, quiet, honest; where order is the likeness and the / mirror of luxury; where life is fat, and sweet to breathe; / where disorder, tumult, and the unexpected are shut out; where / happiness is wedded to silence; where even cooking is poetic, / rich and highly flavoured at once; where all, dear love, is / made in your image.