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To kneel before some saintly shrine	A
To breathe the health of airs divine	A
Or bathe where sacred rivers flow	B
The cowled and turbaned pilgrims go	B
I too a palmer take as they	C
With staff and scallop shell my way	C
To feel from burdening cares and ills	D
The strong uplifting of the hills	D
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The years are many since at first	E
For dreamed of wonders all athirst	E
I saw on Winnipesaukee fall	F
The shadow of the mountain wall	F
Ah where are they who sailed with me	G
The beautiful island studded sea	G
And am I he whose keen surprise	H
Flashed out from such unclouded eyes	H
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Still when the sun of summer burns	I
My longing for the hills returns	I
And northward leaving at my back	J
The warm vale of the Merrimac	J
I go to meet the winds of morn	K
Blown down the hill gaps mountain born	K
Breathe scent of pines and satisfy	L
The hunger of a lowland eye	L
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Again I see the day decline	A
Along a ridged horizon line	A
Touching the hill tops as a nun	M
Her beaded rosary sinks the sun	M
One lake lies golden which shall soon	N
Be silver in the rising moon	N
And one the crimson of the skies	H
And mountain purple multiplies	H
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With the untroubled quiet blends	O
The distance softened voice of friends	O
The girl's light laugh no discord brings	P
To the low song the pine tree sings	P
And not unwelcome comes the hail	Q
Of boyhood from his nearing sail	Q
The human presence breaks no spell	R
And sunset still is miracle	S
	-
Calm as the hour methinks I feel	T
A sense of worship o'er me steal	T
Not that of satyr charming Pan	U
No cult of Nature shaming man	U
Not Beauty's self but that which lives	V
And shines through all the veils it weaves	W
Soul of the mountain lake and wood	E
Their witness to the Eternal Good	E
	-
And if by fond illusion here	X
The earth to heaven seems drawing near	Y
And yon outlying range invites	Z
To other and serener heights	Z
Scarce hid behind its topmost swell	R
The shining Mounts Delectable	S
A dream may hint of truth no less	A2
Than the sharp light of wakefulness	A2
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As through her vale of incense smoke	B2
Of old the spell rapt priestess spoke	B2
More than her heathen oracle	S
May not this trance of sunset tell	R
That Nature's forms of loveliness	A2
Their heavenly archetypes confess	A2
Fashioned like Israel's ark alone	C2
From patterns in the Mount made known	C2
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A holier beauty overbroods	A2
These fair and faint similitudes	A2
Yet not unblest is he who sees	A2
Shadows of God's realities	A2
And knows beyond this masquerade	E
Of shape and color light and shade	E
And dawn and set and wax and wane	D2
Eternal verities remain	D2
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O gems of sapphire granite set	E
O hills that charmed horizons fret	E
I know how fair your morns can break	E2
In rosy light on isle and lake	E2
How over wooded slopes can run	M
The noonday play of cloud and sun	M
And evening droop her oriflamme	G
Of gold and red in still Asquam	G
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The summer moons may round again	F2
And careless feet these hills profane	D2
These sunsets waste on vacant eyes	A2
The lavish splendor of the skies	A2
Fashion and folly misplaced here	X
Sigh for their natural atmosphere	Y
And travelled pride the outlook scorn	K
Of lesser heights than Matterhorn	K
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But let me dream that hill and sky	L
Of unseen beauty prophesy	A2
And in these tinted lakes behold	E
The trailing of the raiment fold	E
Of that which still eluding gaze	A2
Allures to upward tending ways	A2
Whose footprints make wherever found	E
Our common earth a holy ground	E

John Greenleaf Whittier

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