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• The darkness is not thy bourn, the tunnel is not thy abiding home! —  My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year
• It matters not whether the eastern Algonkins pointed to the south, others of their nation, with the Iroquois and Creeks, to the west, or many tribes to the east, as the direction taken by the spirit; all these myths but mean that its bourn is the home of the sun, which is perhaps in the Orient whence he comes forth, in the Occident where he makes his bed, or in the South whither he retires in the chilling winter. —  The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America
• Plowers not few There driving to and fro their sturdy teams Labor'd the land; and oft as in their course They came to the field's bourn, so oft a man Met them, who in their hands a goblet placed 680 Charged with delicious wine. —  The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper
• The poet who looks on to his moment of creation as that for which he lives, sees that which is invisible and hears that which is soundless Probably in this last analogy there is a clew as to the mode by which success in this voyage to the unknown bourn ("whence," indeed, "no traveller returns") is attained. —  Light On The Path and Through the Gates of Gold
• "Ireland is ever my bourn," she wrote. —  Excellent Women

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