Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]

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Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]
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Scollard, Clinton, 1860-1932
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New York, N.Y.: Laurence J. Gomme
1916
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"Ballads : patriotic & romantic / by Clinton Scollard [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAE7431.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 14, 2024.

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THE CALL OF THE HILLS

I LIST its sound in the night, The surge song of the sea; I mark it, a welter of white Or gray with the driven rain; I watch it broad and bright, A sapphire harmony, — But the hills call and the rills call, so it's ho, for the hills again!
The ships go wavering by,And fade on the faint sea rim; Graceful the white gulls fly, Their cry like a far refrain; The low wind comes like a sigh From the outer islands dim, — But the hills call and the rills call, so it's ho, for the hills again!
I turn my back on the foam, On the long curved line of shore, On the dunes and the reedy loam And the murmur of the main; Oh, the hill man seeks his home As the sailor the ocean's roar! Hark! the hills call and the rills call, so it's ho, for the hills again!
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