O you dear heights of blue no ploughman tills,

O valleys where the curling mist upsteams

White over fields of trembling daffodils,

And you old dusty little water-mills,

Through all my life, for joy of you, sweet thrills

Shook me, and in my death at last there beams

Big glory mellowing on the mellowing hills

And in the little valleys, thatch and dreams.

THE LITTLE ROAD

I will not take the great road that goes so proud and high,