I never loved your plains,
Your gentle valleys,
Your drowsy country lanes
And pleached alleys.
I want my hills--the trail
That scorns the hollow--
Up, up the ragged shale
Where few will follow.
Up, over wooded crest,
And mossy boulder,
With strong thigh, heaving chest,
And swinging shoulder.
So let me hold my way,
By nothing halted,
Until, at close of day,
I stand exalted.
High on my hills of dream--
Dear hills that know me!
And then how fair will seem
The land below me!
How pure, at vesper-time
The far bells chiming!
God, give me hills to climb
And strength for climbing!
~ Arthur Guiterman
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
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