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KLICKITAT HILLS by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER

First Line: THESE ARE NO FAT
Last Line: WITH LONELINESS.
Subject(s): MOUNTAINS; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
These are no fat
And pampered hills
With streams and trees
To serve their wills.

Soil-denuded,
Blanched by suns
To semblances
Of skeletons;

Great ribs showing
Through a thin,
Taut-stretched acreage
Of skin;

Each year more gaunt,
More eagle-browed;
Yet arrogant, somehow,
Uncowed,

And so refined,
So honed by stress,
They break the heart
With loneliness.



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