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HILLS OF HOME by WITTER BYNNER

Poet Analysis

First Line: NAME ME NO NAMES FOR MY DISEASE
Last Line: "SEEKING AGAIN THOSE HILLS."
Subject(s): HOMESICKNESS; MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
Name me no names for my disease,
With uninforming breath;
I tell you I am none of these,
But homesick unto death --

Homesick for hills that I had known,
For brooks that I had crossed,
Before I met this flesh and bone
And followed and was lost. . . .

And though they break my heart at last,
Yet name no name of ills.
Say only, "Here is where he passed,
Seeking again those hills."






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