| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Louis Stevenson. 1850–1894 |
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| 847. In the Highlands |
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| IN the highlands, in the country places, | |
| Where the old plain men have rosy faces, | |
| And the young fair maidens | |
| Quiet eyes; | |
| Where essential silence cheers and blesses, | 5 |
| And for ever in the hill-recesses | |
| Her more lovely music | |
| Broods and dies— | |
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| O to mount again where erst I haunted; | |
| Where the old red hills are bird-enchanted, | 10 |
| And the low green meadows | |
| Bright with sward; | |
| And when even dies, the million-tinted, | |
| And the night has come, and planets glinted, | |
| Lo, the valley hollow | 15 |
| Lamp-bestarr'd! | |
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| O to dream, O to awake and wander | |
| There, and with delight to take and render, | |
| Through the trance of silence, | |
| Quiet breath! | 20 |
| Lo! for there, among the flowers and grasses, | |
| Only the mightier movement sounds and passes; | |
| Only winds and rivers, | |
| Life and death. | |
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