The Man on the Hilltop
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| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
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Excerpt from The Man on the Hilltop: And Other Poems The Man on the Hilltop Shadows are round him in my memory - Impenetrable shadows, peopling full A universe where streams of heavy light Reveal strange crouching forms of ominous doom. As in the sun´s and moon´s and stars´ eclipse I see him on that hilltop; mighty wings Flap from the sky above him and surround With fierce and fluctuating winds. Alone, Sleepless, he waits in his allotted place Amid these howling kingdoms of the void; Defiant, sacrificed, and conquering; Mad; but a great heart, an heroic heart. ´Twas thus I came upon him: - When, at end Of college years, one winter, first I learned That, if I loved this curious human life To which we all with blind affection cling, I must with instant haste betake myself To regions far from Massachusetts´ coasts, In hope that desert air would make me whole And hearty, - as in fact it well has done. And so I went, not fain at all to die; And for two years lived on the western plains At a friend´s ranch until my peril passed. There first I saw the man of whom my tale About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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