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Robert Louis Stevenson - In The HighlandsRobert Louis Stevenson - In The Highlands
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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 and render,      Through the trance of silence,          Quiet breath!          Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses,  Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;      Only winds and rivers,          Life and death.
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