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First Line: There is a special glory set apart
Last Line: Can turn them to the hills, as friends of old!
Subject(s): Mountains; Hills; Downs (great Britain)


THERE is a special glory set apart
For great, green hills that dream against the sky;
High hills, blest, as the sun-priest passes by,
With beauty that makes sudden tears to start,
Yet baffles word or brush—beyond all art;
Enfolding hills, that tempt young feet to try
To find the wonders that beyond them lie—
Dear hills, that beckon back the homing heart!

Poor, they whose childish eyes have never seen
Contented cattle on far hills of green;
Bereft are they who leave no hills behind
When they set forth the rainbow gold to find!
Blessed, they who when they need to be consoled
Can turn them to the hills, as friends of old!





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