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Dennis Johnson: What is the origin of the quotation:

Peddler of dream-stuff, piping an empty tune
Fisher of shadows, ploughman of the moon.

It is quoted in Robert W. Service's autobiography, and an inspiration for the book's title..

I've done various searches without success.

Thanks.

Alice Duer Miller

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Sometimes, to solace my sad heart, I say,
Though late it be, though lily-time be past,
Though all the summer skies be overcast,
Haply I will go down to her, some day,
And cast my rests of life before her feet,
That she may have her will of me, being so sweet
And none gainsay!

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