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so it came that being in the bush and feeling the delight and fascination of the great pastoral life and work I have tried to express it
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The speaker says that being in the bush brought a strong sense of delight and fascination with pastoral life and work. Those experiences led them to try to express what that way of living felt like. The sentence presents the expression as an attempt to share an experience that deeply impressed them.
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