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The burly driver at my side	A
We slowly climbed the hill	B
Whose summit in the hot noontide	A
Seemed rising rising still	B
At last our short noon shadows bid	A
The top stone bare and brown	C
From whence like Gizeh's pyramid	A
The rough mass slanted down	C
	-
I felt the cool breath of the North	D
Between me and the sun	E
O'er deep still lake and ridgy earth	F
I saw the cloud shades run	E
Before me stretched for glistening miles	G
Lay mountain girdled Squam	H
Like green winged birds the leafy isles	G
Upon its bosom swam	H
	-
And glimmering through the sun haze warm	H
Far as the eye could roam	H
Dark billows of an earthquake storm	H
Beflecked with clouds like foam	H
Their vales in misty shadow deep	I
Their rugged peaks in shine	J
I saw the mountain ranges sweep	I
The horizon's northern line	J
	-
There towered Chocorua's peak and west	A
Moosehillock's woods were seem	H
With many a nameless slide scarred crest	A
And pine dark gorge between	K
Beyond them like a sun rimmed cloud	A
The great Notch mountains shone	L
Watched over by the solemn browed	A
And awful face of stone	L
	-
'A good look off ' the driver spake	M
'About this time last year	N
I drove a party to the Lake	M
And stopped at evening here	O
'T was duskish down below but all	P
These hills stood in the sun	E
Till dipped behind yon purple wall	P
He left them one by one	E
	-
'A lady who from Thornton hill	B
Had held her place outside	A
And as a pleasant woman will	B
Had cheered the long dull ride	A
Besought me with so sweet a smile	Q
That though I hate delays	R
I could not choose but rest awhile	Q
These women have such ways	R
	-
'On yonder mossy ledge she sat	A
Her sketch upon her knees	S
A stray brown lock beneath her hat	A
Unrolling in the breeze	S
Her sweet face in the sunset light	A
Upraised and glorified	A
I never saw a prettier sight	A
In all my mountain ride	A
	-
'As good as fair it seemed her joy	T
To comfort and to give	U
My poor sick wife and cripple boy	T
Will bless her while they live '	-
The tremor in the driver's tone	L
His manhood did not shame	H
'I dare say sir you may have known'	L
He named a well known name	H
	-
Then sank the pyramidal mounds	V
The blue lake fled away	W
For mountain scope a parlor's bounds	V
A lighted hearth for day	W
From lonely years and weary miles	G
The shadows fell apart	A
Kind voices cheered sweet human smiles	G
Shone warm into my heart	A
	-
We journeyed on but earth and sky	X
Had power to charm no more	Y
Still dreamed my inward turning eye	X
The dream of memory o'er	Z
Ah human kindness human love	A2
To few who seek denied	A
Too late we learn to prize above	A2
The whole round world beside	A

John Greenleaf Whittier

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