by Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)

Language: English 
In the highlands and 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 —

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First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, December 1894

Composition:

    Set to music by Douglas Steele (1910 - 1999), "In the highlands", stanza 1 [ voice and piano ], Manchester, Forsyth Publications

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