“I the Mountain take,
Bearing my aged Father on my Back.”
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.”
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