Arthur Guiterman 1935
Pete Sutherland
“About Vermont’s hills; the words were written in 1935 by Arthur Guiterman, who became Poet Laureate of Vermont, and set more recently to music by Vermonter Pete Sutherland.”
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I never loved your plains!– Your gentle valleys, Your drowsy country lanes And pleachd alleys. I want my hills! — the trail That scorns the hollow.– Up, up the ragged shale Where few will follow, Up, over wooded crest And mossy bowlder With strong thigh, heaving chest, And swinging shoulder, So let me hold my way, By nothing halted, Until, at close of day, I stand, exalted, High on my hills of dream– Dear hills that know me! And then, how fair will seem The lands below me, How pure, at vesper-time, The far bells chiming! God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!