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They left their home of summer ease Beneath the lowland's sheltering trees, To seek, by ways unknown to all, The promise of the waterfall.
Some vague, faint rumor to the vale Had crept -- perchance a hunter's tale -- Of its wild mirth of waters lost On the dark woods through which it tossed.