Yellow Nineties 2.0 The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, Part II.—Autumn 1895 <editor>Lorraine Janzen Kooistra</editor> </titleStmt> <editionStmt> <p> <date>2019</date> </p> </editionStmt> <publicationStmt> <idno>EGV2_28po</idno> <publisher>Yellow Nineties 2.0</publisher> <pubPlace>Ryerson University Centre for Digital </pubPlace> <address> <addrLine>English Department</addrLine> <addrLine>350 Victoria Street,</addrLine> <addrLine>Toronto ON,</addrLine> <addrLine>M5B 2K3</addrLine> <addrLine>Canada</addrLine> </address> <availability> <p>Usable according to the Creative Commons License <ref target="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/">Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike</ref>.</p> </availability> </publicationStmt> <sourceDesc> <biblStruct> <monogr> <editor> </editor> <author>William Sharp</author> <title>The Hill Water Patrick Geddes and Colleagues Edinburgh T. Fisher Unwin London Autumn 1895 Sharp, William. "The Hill Water." The Evergreen; A Northern Seasonal, vol. 2, Autumn 1895, pp. 107-109. Evergreen Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2016-2018. Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2019. https://1890s.ca/egv2_sharp_hill/

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      THE HILL-WATER
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THERE is a little brook, I love it well: It hath so sweet a sound That even in dreams my ears could tell Its music anywhere: Often I wander there, And leave my book Unread upon the ground, Eager to quell In the hushed air That haunts its flowing forehead fair All that about my heart hath wound A trouble of care: Or, it may be, idly to spell Its runic rhythms rare, And with its singing soul to share Its ancient lore profound: For sweet it is to be the echoing shell That lists and inly keeps that murmurous miracle. 108 About it all day long In this June tide There is a myriad song. From every side There comes a breath, a hum, a voice: The hill-wind fans it with a pleasant noise As of sweet rustling things That move on unseen wings; And from the pinewood near A floating whisper oftentimes I hear, As when, o'er pastoral meadows wide, Stealeth the drowsy rumour of a weir. The green reeds bend above it, The soft green grasses stoop and trail therein; The minnows dart and spin; The purple-gleaming swallows love it; And, hush, its innermost depths within, The vague prophetic murmur of the linn. But not in summertide alone I love to look Upon this rippling water in my glen: Most sweet, most dear my brook, When the grey mists shroud every ben, And in its quiet place The stream doth bare her face, And lets me pore deep down into her eyes, Her eyes of shadowy grey, Wherein from day to day My soul is startled with a new surmise, Or doth some subtler meaning trace Reflected from unseen, invisible skies. 109 Dear mountain-solitary, dear lonely brook, Of hillside rains and dews the vagrant daughter, Sweet, sweet thy music when I bend above thee. When in thy fugitive face I look: Yet not the less I love thee, When, far away, and absent from thee long, I yearn, my dark hill-water, I yearn, I strain to hear thy song. Brown, wandering water. Dear murmuring water.

WILLIAM SHARP.