David Collins

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“After reading Howitt’s account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some gold daily, though it were only the finest particles,—why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“All up and down the whole creation,
Sadly I roam,
Still longing for the old plantation,
And for the old folks at home.”
—Stephen Collins Foster (1826–1864)