Thompson Rivers

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“She went her unremembering way,
She went and left in me
The pang of all the partings gone,
And partings yet to be.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

“While the Republic has already acquired a history world-wide, America is still unsettled and unexplored. Like the English in New Holland, we live only on the shores of a continent even yet, and hardly know where the rivers come from which float our navy.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)