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Our zest for the river did not wane...
We went on in much the same way, in surroundings which had become familiar,
with not even a flood to make the year memorable.
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Ruts, however, are worn only in traveled ways on land:
a river life partakes of the freshness of the river itself.
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Each rise and fall affords a new outlook
and gives to a well-known shore the feel of one
at which you have just landed for the first time...
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~ Harlan Hubbard
from Shantyboat Journal
edited by Don Wallis
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