“This is the place of my song-dream”

Name the source and the individual in question:

“This is the place of my song-dream, the place the music played to me,” whispered the Rat, as if in a trance. “Here, in this holy place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find Him!”

 

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Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows; The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

Question by Sumant Srivathsan