Over the Hills + 

Often and often it came back again + 

To mind, the day I passed the horizon ridge + 

To a new country, the path I had to find + 

By half-gaps that were stiles once in the hedge, + 

The pack of scarlet clouds running across + 

The harvest evening that seemed endless then + 

And after, and the inn where all were kind, + 

All were strangers. I did not know my loss + 

Till one day twelve months later suddenly + 

I leaned upon my spade and saw it all, + 

Though far beyond the sky-line. It became + 

Almost a habit through the year for me + 

To lean and see it and think to do the same + 

Again for two days and a night. Recall + 

Was vain: no more could the restless brook + 

Ever turn back and climb the waterfall + 

To the lake that rests and stirs not in its nook, + 

As in the hollow of the collar-bone + 

Under the mountain’s head of rush and stone. + 