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A little while, a little while, The noisy crowd are barred away; And I can sing and I can smile A little while I've holyday !
Where wilt thou go my harassed heart ? Full many a land invites thee now; And places near, and far apart Have rest for thee, my weary brow -
There is a spot 'mid barren hills Where winter howls and driving rain But if the dreary tempest chills There is a light that warms again
The house is old, the trees are bare And moonless bends the misty dome But what on earth is half so dear - So longed for as the hearth of home ?
The mute bird sitting on the stone, The dank moss dripping from the wall, The garden-walk with weeds o'ergrown I love them - how I love them all !
Shall I go there? or shall I seek Another clime, another sky, Where tongues familiar music speak In accents dear to memory ?
Yes, as I mused, the naked room, The flickering firelight died away And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day -
A little and a lone green lane That opened on a common wide A distant, dreamy, dim blue chain Of mountains circling every side -
A heaven so clear, an earth so calm, So sweet, so soft, so hushed in air And, deepening still the dreamlike charm, Wild moor-sheep feeding everywhere -
That was the scene - I knew it well I knew the pathways far and near That winding o'er each billowy swell Marked out the tracks of wandering deer
Could I have lingered but an hour It well had paid a week of toil But truth has banished fancy's power I hear my dungeon bars recoil -
Even as I stood with raptured eye Absorbed in bliss so deep and dear My hour of rest had fleeted by And given me back to weary care -
Emily Jane Brontė
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