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"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.424
Do not fear! Heaven is as near, He said, by water as by land!