The Traveller’s Night Song II
The Traveller’s Night Song II - meaning Summary
Evening's Promise of Peace
A brief, tranquil scene uses evening and hushed nature to offer consolation. The speaker surveys quiet hilltops, still trees, and sleeping birds to suggest a universal pause in activity. That external calm becomes a promise for the listener: rest and relief are coming. The poem frames mortality or exhaustion not as abrupt loss but as a gentle, inevitable settling into peace, inviting acceptance rather than resistance.
Read Complete AnalysesOver all the hill-tops Is Rest, In all the tree-tops You can feel Scarcely a breath: The little birds quiet in the leaves. Wait now, soon you Too will have peace.
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