“Be it granted me to behold you again in dying,
Hills of home!”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Songs of Travel and Other Verses
No. XLV, S.R. Crockett.
Songs of Travel and Other Verses (1896)
“You and me on the bobbing knee.
Didn't we cry at that old mythology he'd read!
I will come home again, but not until
The sun and the moon meet on yon hill.”
Song lyrics, The Kick Inside (1978)
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