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SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 17 by WILLIAM WATSON

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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.
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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