Eldorado

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1. Gaily bedight,
2. A gallant knight,
3. In sunshine and in shadow,
4. Had journeyed long,
5. Singing a song,
6. In search of Eldorado.
7. But he grew old--
8. This knight so bold--
9. And o'er his heart a shadow
10. Fell as he found
11. No spot of ground
12. That looked like Eldorado.
13.  
14. And, as his strength
15. Failed him at length,
16. He met a pilgrim shadow--
17. "Shadow," said he,
18. "Where can it be--
19. This land of Eldorado?"
20.  
21. "Over the Mountains
22. Of the Moon,
23. Down the Valley of the Shadow,
24. Ride, boldly ride,"
25. The shade replied,
26. "If you seek for Eldorado!"
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29. 1849.