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The Poems of Lionel Johnson

by Lionel Johnson

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Moel Fammau

In purple heather is my sleep
On Moel Fammau: far below,
    The springing rivulets leap,
    The firs wave to and fro.

This morn, the sun on Bala Lake
Broke out behind me: morrow morn
    Near Rhual I shall wake,
    Before the sun is born;

High burning over Clywyd Vale,
And reddening the mountain dew:
    While the moon lingers frail,
    High up in skies of blue.

Lovely and loved, O passionate land!
Dear Celtic land, unconquered still!
    Thy mountain strength prevails:
    Thy winds have all their will.

They have no care for meaner things;
They have no scorn for brooding dreams:
    A spirit in them sings,
    A light about them beams.

1887.

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