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Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). The New Poetry: An Anthology. 1917.

To the Hills around Northampton

Dorothy Butts

From “The Passers-by”

LITTLE New England hills,

How tenderly

You gather in this bit of world

To comfort me,

Encircling all I love

As I would do

Had arms the reach of heart!

Small hills of blue,

If, having grown to be

More tall than you,

I shall be forced to see

The farther view,

How shall I feel

The solace of your rounded form against the sky,

Unless I kneel?