King David

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    Not Solomon, for all his wit,
    Nor Samson, though he were so strong,
    No king nor person ever yet
    Could ‘scape, but death laid him along:
    Robert Southwell (1561?–1595)

    When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)