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Last Line: Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Nature; Walking; Desire


The hills are tipped with sunshine, while I walk
In shadows dim and cold:
The unawakened rose sleeps on her stalk
In a bud's fold.
Until the sun flood all the world with gold.

The hills are crowned with glory, and the glow
Flows widening down apace:
Unto the sunny hill-tops I, set low,
Lift a tired face, ''"
Ah happy rose, content to wait for grace!

How tired a face, how tired a brain,
A heart I lift, who long
For something never felt but still desired;
Sunshine and song,
Song where the choirs of sunny heaven stand choired.





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