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This happy breed of men, this little world, / This precious stone set in the silver sea, / Which serves it in the office of a wall,. / This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, / This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,. / This land of such dear souls, this dear, dear land. / - Shakespeare
Stevenson has written of a traveller whose wife slumbered by his side what time his spirit re-adventured forth in memory of days gone by. He was quite happy about it, and I suppose his travels had been peaceful, for days and nights such as these men spent coming down the Beardmore will give you nightmare after nightmare, and wake you shrieking -- years after.