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ENGLAND (2) by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE

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First Line: NO LOVELIER HILLS THAN THINE HAVE LAID
Last Line: AND THINE MY DARKNESS BE.
Subject(s): ENGLAND; ENGLISH;

No lovelier hills than thine have laid
My tired thoughts to rest:
No peace of lovelier valleys made
Like peace within my breast.

Thine are the woods whereto my soul,
Out of the noontide beam,
Flees for a refuge green and cool
And tranquil as a dream.

Thy breaking seas like trumpets peal;
Thy clouds -- how oft have I
Watched their bright towers of silence steal
Into infinity!

My heart within me faints to roam
In thought even far from thee:
Thine be the grave whereto I come,
And thine my darkness be.



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