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First Line: High and alone I stood on calton hill
Last Line: But the brave soul is free, is home again!
Subject(s): Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894)


HIGH and alone I stood on Calton Hill
Above the scene that was so dear to him
Whose exile dreams of it made exile dim.
October wooed the folded valleys till
In mist they blurred, even as our eyes upfill
Under a too-sweet memory; spires did swim,
And gables rust-red, on the grey sea's brim—
But on these heights the air was soft and still.
Yet not all still: an alien breeze will turn
Here, as from bournes in aromatic seas,
As round old shrines a new-freed soul might yearn
With incense of rich earthly reveries.
Vanish the isles: Mist, exile, searching pain,
But the brave soul is free, is home again!





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