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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 cheers and blesses, / And forever 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-bestarred!
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.