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Show On the Heights. So hlch above the other thliiKs We boastfully "the mountain" named It! Its streams poured down to feed our mills; Joyous Its top when sunllKht llamcd It. 'Twin thero mis signaled morn's first ray; There fell the farewell kiss of lUy And now-, far up the mountain side, Ily wlndlnt; patns the miller's daughter And I had climbed where rocks defied And forded streams of sunny water. We nearer lo the summit drew, Enchanted with the widening view. Said she- "ITow near to heaven w seem!" Ah on the mountain top wo retted "Yos; nearer, darllnir. than we deem," And un my breast her fair head nested. We felt the same, alt earth above; For naught l.i nearer heaven than love Cleoige lllrdseyc. In Huston Transcript. |