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The river calmly flows, / Through shining banks, through lonely glen, / Where the owl shrieks, though ne'er the cheer of men / Has stirred its mute repose, / Still if you should walk there, you would go there again. / William Ellery Channing
"The Indians tell us of a beautiful River lying far to the south, which they call Merrimack. " / Sieur de Monts, Relations of the Jesuits, 1604