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THE HILLS OF HOME by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON

First Line: AFTER THE MIGHTY LEVELS OF THE WEST
Last Line: THE HILLS OF HOME!
Subject(s): HOME; MEMORY; SOUL; TREES; YOUTH;

AFTER the mighty levels of the West,
The far horizon and the open quest, --
Back to the land of mists and memories,
Hooded with trees and topped by dappled skies,
Back to the valleys, whence the sun upclomb
The hills of home!

Now let my dead youth have her way with me;
This is a dream-while; I am glad to be
Penned in by orchards, set about with pines,
Lured down long vistas that the soul divines;
The West anon, -- boylike to-day I roam
The hills of home!



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