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Home Memories
To the Members of the Cumberland and Westmoreland Association of Tyneside at their Inaugural Meeting, 1904.
You men come far from Cumbria's quiet places,
You women born in peaceful Westmoreland,
Do ye not roam with fancy hand in hand
The grey moors loved by long-forgotten races,
Do ye not see how sunshine shadow chases
On Fairfield and Helvellyn, or with band
Of hunters range the hills, or dreaming stand
And feel the fellside sweetness on your faces?
You women born in peaceful Westmoreland,
Do ye not roam with fancy hand in hand
The grey moors loved by long-forgotten races,
Do ye not see how sunshine shadow chases
On Fairfield and Helvellyn, or with band
Of hunters range the hills, or dreaming stand
And feel the fellside sweetness on your faces?
But if where Vulcan's Tyneside stithies roar
By day and night your souls can know no rest,
At least as friends together ye can come,
Shut to the door, bid Memory be your guest,
Think of the folk in yonder mountain home,
And find for absence how you love them more.
By day and night your souls can know no rest,
At least as friends together ye can come,
Shut to the door, bid Memory be your guest,
Think of the folk in yonder mountain home,
And find for absence how you love them more.
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