“I Am Bound, I Am Bound...”
by Henry D. Thoreau

I am bound, I am bound, for a distant shore.
By a lonely isle, by a far Azore, 
There it is, there it is, the treasure I seek,
On the barren sands of a desolate creek.

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A Note on the Text:

• Source: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers [The Writings of Henry David Thoreau (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906) p. [2]]

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