1231345American Poetry 1922 — Upon the HillJohn Gould Fletcher

UPON THE HILL

A hundred miles of landscape spread before me like a fan;
Hills behind naked hills, bronze light of evening on them shed;
How many thousand ages have these summits spied on man?
How many thousand times shall I look on them ere this fire in me is dead?


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