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Moreover, the many dead trunks that stand like skeletons, never fail to give to these primeval woods a character of solemnity, absent in those of countries long civilized.
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The emotions excited by the songs of these thrushes belong to a higher order, springing as they do from our deepest sense of the beauty and harmony of the world.
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As age comes on, one source of enjoyment after another is closed, but Nature's sources never fail.
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For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.