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First Line: So hither you return, only to haste
Last Line: And hearts of men, and those calm heights of mind.
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Forests; Hearts; Woods


So hither you return, only to haste
Away to-morrow. And I too shall bide
The grandiose coming of the autumntide
Far from that world which you so late have graced.
You go unto your forests: you will taste
The forest sweetness where the wild deer hide,
That couch in bracken on the wild hill-side,
And in deep glens, and the storm-haunted waste.
And I shall fare through paths you have not known
To such repose as here no search can find;
And I shall wander forth all day alone,
Save that my cares will not lag far behind;
And you will have the mountains for your throne,
And hearts of men, and those calm heights of mind.





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