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    Among the Hills, and other poems Part 5 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Among the Hills, and other poems Part 5 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
    Among the Hills, and other poems Part 5 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
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    Among the Hills, and other poems Part 5 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Among the Hills, and other poems Part 5 From Volume I of The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier - John Greenleaf Whittier

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      Title: Narrative and Legendary Poems: Among the Hills and Others From Volume I., The Works of Whittier

      Author: John Greenleaf Whittier

      Release Date: Dec, 2005 [EBook #9564] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on October 2, 2003]

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      Language: English

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      NARRATIVE AND LEGENDARY

      POEMS

      BY JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER

      CONTENTS:

      AMONG THE HILLS PRELUDE AMONG THE HILLS

      THE DOLE OF JARL THORKELL THE TWO RABBINS NOREMBEGA MIRIAM MAUD MULLER MARY GARVIN THE RANGER NAUHAUGHT, THE DEACON THE SISTERS MARGUERITE THE ROBIN

      AMONG THE HILLS

      This poem, when originally published, was dedicated to Annie Fields, wife of the distinguished publisher, James T. Fields, of Boston, in grateful acknowledgment of the strength and inspiration I have found in her friendship and sympathy. The poem in its first form was entitled The Wife: an Idyl of Bearcamp Water, and appeared in The Atlantic Monthly for January, 1868. When I published the volume Among the Hills, in December of the same year, I expanded the Prelude and filled out also the outlines of the story.

      PRELUDE.

      ALONG the roadside, like the flowers of gold

      That tawny Incas for their gardens wrought,

      Heavy with sunshine droops the golden-rod,

      And the red pennons of the cardinal-flowers

      Hang motionless upon their upright staves.

      The sky is hot and hazy, and the wind,

      Vying-weary with its long flight from the south,

      Unfelt; yet, closely scanned, yon maple leaf

      With faintest motion, as one stirs in dreams,

      Confesses it. The locust by the wall

      Stabs the noon-silence with his sharp alarm.

      A single hay-cart down the dusty road

      Creaks slowly, with its driver fast asleep

      On the load's top. Against the neighboring hill,

      Huddled along the stone wall's shady side,

      The sheep show white, as if a snowdrift still

      Defied the dog-star. Through the open door

      A drowsy smell of flowers-gray heliotrope,

      And white sweet clover, and shy mignonette—

      Comes faintly in, and silent chorus lends

      To the pervading symphony of peace.

      No time is this for hands long over-worn

      To task their strength; and (unto Him be praise

      Who giveth quietness!) the stress and strain

      Of years that did the work of centuries

      Have ceased, and we can draw our breath once more

      Freely and full. So, as yon harvesters

      Make glad their nooning underneath the elms

      With tale and riddle and old snatch of song,

      I lay aside grave themes, and idly turn

      The leaves of memory's sketch-book, dreaming o'er

      Old summer pictures of the quiet hills,

      And human life, as quiet, at their feet.

      And yet not idly all. A farmer's son,

      Proud of field-lore and harvest craft, and feeling

      All their fine possibilities, how rich

      And restful even poverty and toil

      Become when beauty, harmony, and love

      Sit at their humble hearth as angels

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