In The Highlands Poem by Robert Louis Stevenson

In The Highlands

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IN the highlands, in the country places,
Where the old plain men have rosy faces,
   And the young fair maidens
   Quiet eyes;
Where essential silence cheers and blesses,
And for ever in the hill-recesses
   Her more lovely music
   Broods and dies--

O to mount again where erst I haunted;
Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted,
   And the low green meadows
   Bright with sward;
And when even dies, the million-tinted,
And the night has come, and planets glinted,
   Lo, the valley hollow
   Lamp-bestarr'd!

O to dream, O to awake and wander
There, and with delight to take and render,
   Through the trance of silence,
   Quiet breath!
Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses,
Only the mightier movement sounds and passes;
   Only winds and rivers,
   Life and death.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Camden Clabaugh 03 December 2020

What does this poem mean? ? ? ? ?

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Eddie Creaney 02 September 2020

And the young fair maidens Quiet eyes; Two short lines which conjure up so much.

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