“Come, wander with me, for the moonbeams are bright
On river and forest, o'er mountain and lea.”
Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher
Come, wander with me, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.”
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