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HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS by WILLIAM CANTON

First Line: HE WALKED IN GLORY ON THE HILLS
Last Line: FOR OUR RUDE HUTS, BEFORE HE DIED.
Subject(s): DEATH; DEAD, THE;
HE walked in glory on the hills;
We dalesmen envied from afar
The heights and rose-lit pinnacles
Which placed him nigh the evening star.

Upon the peaks they found him dead;
And now we wonder if he sighed
For our low grass beneath his head,
For our rude huts, before he died.



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