In the [highlands, in]1 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.
Two songs , opus 26
by Roger Quilter (1877 - 1953)
1. In the highlands  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "In the highlands", appears in Songs of Travel and other verses, no. 15, first published 1896
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View original text (without footnotes)First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, December 1894
Confirmed with Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir. The Oxford Book of English Verse. Oxford: Clarendon, 1919, [c1901]; Bartleby.com, 1999. www.bartleby.com/101/847.html.
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2. Over the land is April  [sung text checked 1 time]
Language: English
Over the land is April, Over my heart a rose; Over the high, brown mountain The sound of singing goes. Say, love, do you hear me, Hear my sonnets ring? Over the high, brown mountain, Love, do you hear me sing? By highway, love, and byway The snows succeed the rose. Over the high, brown mountain The wind of winter blows. Say, love, do you hear me, Hear my sonnets ring? Over the high, brown mountain, [I sound the song of spring, I throw the flowers of spring. Do you hear the song of spring? Hear you the songs of spring?]1
Authorship:
- by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), "Over the land is April"
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View original text (without footnotes)1 Quilter: "Love, do you hear me, do you hear, / Do you hear the song of spring?"
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