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WHO IS IT SITS AT THE TOP OF THE HILL? by ANNETTE WYNNE

Last Line: That teaches each breeze and each shivering rill
Subject(s): GOD;

WHO is it sits at the top of the hill
And teaches each shy httle shivering rill?
And says: "Down, down, your ripples must run
And you must laugh back at the happy sun,
And you must blow down, O small hill breeze,
And rock the wee nests that hang from the trees."
Some night when the sky is very still,
I shall climb to the top of the woody hill,
I shall climb and climb till I find you out,
As you proudly sit in your high redoubt,
Old man of the hill, old man of the hill.
That teaches each breeze and each shivering rill.



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