Paul Verlaine Long Poems

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Dennis Johnson: What is the origin of the quotation:

Peddler of dream-stuff, piping an empty tune
Fisher of shadows, ploughman of the moon.

It is quoted in Robert W. Service's autobiography, and an inspiration for the book's title..

I've done various searches without success.

Thanks.

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Sonnet Xvi. To Kosciusko
 by John Keats

Good Kosciusko, thy great name alone
Is a full harvest whence to reap high feeling;
It comes upon us like the glorious pealing
Of the wide spheres -- an everlasting tone.
And now it tells me, that in worlds unknown,
The names of heroes, burst from clouds concealing,
And changed to harmonies, for ever stealing
Through cloudless blue, and round each silver throne.
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