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The Song Of The Hills

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"The Path on the Rainbow", edited by George W. Cronyn, [1918],

The Song Of The Hills

From The Yokut

Being The Song Of A Man And A Woman Who Might Have Loved

This is the song of the Hills

In the hour when they talk together,

When the alpen glow dies down in the west and leaves the heavens tender;

In the pure and shadowless hour

When the Mountains talk together;

"Fir tree leaneth to fir,

The wind-blown willows mingle;

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Clouds draw each to each, dissolve, depart, and renew one another;

But the strong Hills hold asunder.

"Had we been less we had loved;

We had stooped and been tender;

"But our hands are under the earth

For the travail of her harvests,

Upholding the rain-sleeked fields

And the long, brown, fruitful furrow.

Terror taketh the earth

When the Mountains move together.

"But ever as winds of Spring

Set the meadow grasses caressing,

And the coo-dove's call.

To the coo-dove's mate

Resounds in the oak-wood valleys,

We shall thrill with the brooding earth,

We shall turn, touch hands, and remember,

Had we been less, how much we had loved

How nobly we might have been tender."

Footnotes

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Kuna: Supreme One.

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