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the bourne of my travels

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the bourne of my travels

An archaic word, meaning "destination" or "terminal point" of a journey (compare Hamlet's famous phrase: "The undiscovered country, from whose bourn / No traveller returns"—Hamlet 3.1.79-80).


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