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(1896)
THERE are some heights in Wessex, shaped as if by a kindly hand / For thinking, dreaming, dying on, and at crises when I stand, / Say, on Ingpen Beacon eastward, or on Wylls-Neck westwardly, / I seem where I was before my birth, and after death may be.