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I sailed up a river with a pleasant wind, / New lands, new people, and new thoughts to find; / Many fair reaches and headlands appeared, / And many dangers were there to be feared; / But when I remember where I have been, / And the fair landscapes that I have seen, / Thou seemest the only permanent shore, / The cape never rounded, nor wandered o'er.