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Poems Of Robert Louis Stevenson: In the Highlands
From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Stevenson, Robert Louis
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In the Highlands
In the highlands, in the country places, Where the old plain men have rosy faces, And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes; Where essential silence chills and blesses, And for ever in the hill - recesses Her more lovely music Broods and dies -
O to mount again where erst I haunted; Where the old red hills are bird - enchanted, And the low green meadows Bright with sward; And when even dies, the million - tinted, And the night has come, and planets glinted, Lo, the valley hollow Lamp - bestarr'd!
O to dream, O to awake and wander There, and with delight to take ...
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