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A RETURN by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL

First Line: WE TURNED BACK MAD FROM THE MYSTIC
Last Line: BUT JOY AS AN ARCTIC SUN WENT DOWN.
Subject(s): MOUNTAINS; NATURE; HILLS; DOWNS (GREAT BRITAIN);
WE turned back mad from the mystic mountains,
All foamed with red and with elfin gold:
Up from the heart of the twilight's fountains
The fires enchanted were starward rolled.

We turned back mad: we thought of the morrow,
The iron clang of the far-away town:
We could not weep in our bitter sorrow,
But joy as an Arctic sun went down.



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