| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 8400 |
| QUOTATION: | I’ll walk where my own nature would be leading:
It vexes me to choose another guide:
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding;
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Emily Brontė (1818–1848), British poet, novelist. Often rebuked, yet always back returning (l. 13–16). . .
The Complete Poems of Emily Jane Brontė. C. W. Hatfield, ed. (1941) Columbia University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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