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spec: The Valley of the Shadow of Death gives few of its pilgrims back to the world . And I should have been perfectly useless ; for , from having eaten nothing for nearly a week , except a little rice , which I forced into my mouth the last day or two , I was as weak as an infant . The activity of preparation , the rapid progress of the ship , the first making land , the coming up the harbor , and old scenes breaking upon the view , produced a mental as well as bodily activity , from which the change to a perfect stillness , when both expectation and the necessity of labor failed , left a calmness , almost of indifference , from which I must be roused by some new excitement . Soon the mate came forward again , and gave an order , in a low tone , to clew up the main top-gallant sail ; and so infectious was the awe and silence , that the clewlines and buntlines were hauled up without any of the customary singing out at the ropes . On every side , graven in stone , we read the names that have grown familiar in these Memoirs . He looked round in vain , for some time , until the direction of so many laughing eyes showed him the fair offender . He had left home , a lad , and after several years of very hard and trying experience , found himself homeward bound ; and such was the excitement of his feelings that , during the whole passage , he could talk and think of nothing else but his arrival , and how and when he should jump from the vessel and take his way directly home . I think of Robert Frost 's lines : `` The woods are lovely , dark and deep ; but I have promises to keep ; and miles to go before I sleep ; and miles to go before I sleep . If standard metadata is required or optional , then it should work with Dublin Core .