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A Hill Song.

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Hills where once my love and I     Let the hours go laughing by!     All your woods and dales are sad,--     You have lost your Oread.     Falling leaves! Silent woodlands!     Half your loveliness is fled.     Golden-rod, wither now!     Winter winds, come hither now!     All the summer joy is dead.     There's a sense of something gone     In the grass I linger on.     There's an under-voice that grieves     In the rustling of the leaves.     Pine-clad peaks! Rushing waters!     Glens where we were once so glad!     There's a light passed from you,     There's a joy outcast from you,--     You have lost your Oread.

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