“I have need of the sky,
I have business with the grass;
I will up and get me away where the hawk is wheeling
Lone and high,
And the slow clouds go by.
I will get me away to the waters that glass
The clouds as they pass.
I will get me away to the woods.”

—  Richard Hovey

"I have Need of the Sky", p. 56.
Along the Trail (1898)

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