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PILGRIMS
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When I have slumbered,
I have heard sounds
As of travellers passing
These my grounds:


''Twas a sweet music
Wafted them by,
I could not tell
If afar off or nigh.
Unless I dreamed it,
This was of yore:
I never told it
To mortal before;


'Never remembered
But in my dreams,
What to me waking
A miracle seems.'