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MOUNTAIN LAUREATE, by                    
First Line: Morning is flashing from a glorious sun
Alternate Author Name(s): Haliburton, Hugh


MORNING is flashing from a glorious sun
On the broad shoulders of the giant fells
That outreach arms across the narrow dells
And form a silent brotherhood of one
Listening their skylark laureate! New begun
He up the heavens in ever-rising swells
Carries their thanksgiving in song that wells
From his small breast as if ' twould ne'er be done.
What life his music gives them! They are free
In the wild freedom of his daring wing;
And in the cataract of his song, the sea
Of poetry that fills all heaven, they sing;
He is their poet- prophet in his glee,
And in his work and worth their priest and king!






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