28. HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS

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.

_William Canton._

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