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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.

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This is what I vow;
He shall have my heart to keep,
Sweetly will we stir and sleep,
All the years, as now.
Swift the measured sands may run;
Love like this is never done;
He and I are welded one:
This is what I vow.
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