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to whom let us recur for a moment before we follow his more elderly, maybe more poetical, inventions. A rat-hole in a river bank, or a rabbit-hole by the roots of a secular beech—“dull must he be of soul who could pass by” either of these as a child without peopling them in imagination.
A rat-hole by the river’s brim
Only a rat-hole was to him—
Only a rat-hole was to him—
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