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Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907.

By Poems. VII. Song: “A Greenness o’er My Vision Passed”

Isa (Craig) Knox (1831–1903)

A GREENNESS o’er my vision passed,

A freshness o’er my brain,

Rose up as when I saw them last

The glad green hills again.

Amid the streets’ bewildering roar,

I heard the rushing stirs

Of vagrant breezes running o’er

The dark tops of the firs.

Far round, the wide and swooning view

The bound of chainèd heights;

Far off, the dales my footsteps knew,

With all their green delights;

Far down, the river winding through

The valley, silver white;

Far up, amid the cloudless blue,

The slow sail of the kite.

A greenness o’er my vision passed,

A freshness o’er my brain,

Rose up as when I saw them last

The glad green hills again.