“Into the silent land!
Ah, who shall lead us thither?”

— Johann Gaudenz von Salis-Seewis

The Silent Land, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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Swiss poet, author, politician and officer 1762–1834

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