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HEATHER by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE

First Line: HIGH ABOVE THE HIGHLAND GLEN
Subject(s): HEATHER;

HIGH above the Highland glen,
Flamed upon the purple heather,
Colours never mixed of men,
Tints no painter put together.
And I guessed that where he trod,
Quaffing his Olympian fill,
Rudely had some reeling god
Spilt his wine-cup on the hill.




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