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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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Her Name Liberty
by Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
I thought to do a deed of chivalry,
An act of worth, which haply in her sight
Who was my mistress should recorded be
And of the nations. And, when thus the fight
Faltered and men once bold with faces white
Turned this and that way in excuse to flee,
I only stood, and by the foeman's might
Was overborne and mangled cruelly.
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