| Alfred H. Miles, ed. Women Poets of the Nineteenth Century. 1907. | | | Poems.
VII. Song: “A Greenness o’er My Vision Passed” | | By 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. | |
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| Amid the streets’ bewildering roar, | 5 |
| I heard the rushing stirs | |
| Of vagrant breezes running o’er | |
| The dark tops of the firs. | |
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| Far round, the wide and swooning view | |
| The bound of chainèd heights; | 10 |
| Far off, the dales my footsteps knew, | |
| With all their green delights; | |
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| Far down, the river winding through | |
| The valley, silver white; | |
| Far up, amid the cloudless blue, | 15 |
| The slow sail of the kite. | |
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| 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. | 20 | | | |
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