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in Wicklow, Ireland.
“Sweet Vale of Avoca, how calm could I rest
In thy bosom of shade, with the friends I love best.”
T. Moore: Irish Melodies, No. 1 (The Meeting of the Waters.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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