Heart Songs

<h2><SPAN name="HEATHER_WHITE" id="HEATHER_WHITE"></SPAN>Heather White</h2> <div class="poetry"> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0"><span class="letra">S</span>PRIG o’ heather, you were born<br/></span> <span class="i0">Where the mountains greet the morn,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Just within the shadow dim<br/></span> <span class="i4">Of the grey rocks harsh and grim,<br/></span> <span class="i4">Just beside the torrent’s brim,<br/></span> <span class="i8">You were born;<br/></span> <span class="i0">I, a naturalist, can trace<br/></span> <span class="i0">In thy sweet sky-lifted face,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Signs and tokens of the place<br/></span> <span class="i8">Clear as morn.<br/></span></div> <div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">Breath that comes from ’mong the firs,<br/></span> <span class="i0">When the wet-faced sea-wind stirs<br/></span> <span class="i8">In its flight,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Night of gloom, and day of gold,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Hill and vale, white flocks in fold,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Ah, to-night,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Dim my eyes grow as they see<br/></span> <span class="i0">All thy dear heart shows to me,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Blossom from across the sea,<br/></span> <span class="i8">Heather White!<br/></span></div> </div></div> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="page_200" id="page_200"></SPAN>{200}</span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />