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The Mountain Road

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Coming down the mountain road     Light of heart and all alone,     I caught from every rill that flowed     A rapture of its own.     Heart and mind sang on together,     Rhymes began to meet and run     In the windy mountain weather     And the winter sun.     Clad in freshest light and sweet     Far and far the city lay     With her suburbs at her feet     Round the laughing bay.     Like an eagle lifted high     Half the radiant world I scanned,     Till the deep unclouded sky     Circled sea and land.     No more was thought a weary load,     Older comforts stirred within,     Coming down the mountain road     The earth and I were kin.

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