There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.

-Alexander, Cecil Frances
  'There is a Green Hill Far  Away'

Go, for they call you, Shepherd, from the hill.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Poems:  A New Edition,'The Scholar-Gipsy', l.1.

   Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and whenthehill stoodstill hewasneverawhit abashed, but said,'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.12,'Of Boldness'.

'Yestreen I dreamed a dolefu'dream; I ken'd here wad be sorrow! I dreamed I pu'd the heather green, On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.' She gaed up yon high, high hillö I wat she gaed wi'sorrowö An' in the den spied nine dead men, On the dowie houms o' Yarrow.

-Ballads
'The Dowie Houms o' Yarrow'.

L, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill? He that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart. 94

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms15:1^2.

   Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:1^7.

Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 5:14^16.

Why hop ye so, ye high hills? this is God's hill, in the which it pleaseth himto dwell: yea, the Lord will abide in it for ever.

-Book of Common Prayer
Psalm 68:16.

   Breathless, we flung us on the windy hill. Laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Sonnet'.

When o'er the hill the eastern star Tells bughtin-time is near, my jo, And owsen frae the furrowed field Return sae dowf and weary O.

-Burns, Robert
  'My ain kind dearie', or 'The Lea-rig', stanza1.

On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep,Truth stands, and he that will Reach her, about must, and about must go.

-Donne,John
^5  Satires, no.3.

I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to seethat the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.

-Epstein,JuliusJ
  Humphrey Bogart as Rick in Casablanca (with Philip G Epstein and Howard Koch).

The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcherof warm piss.It doesn't amount to a hill of beans.

-Garner,John Nance
Quoted in O C Fisher Cactus Jack (1978), ch.11.

How often have I paused on every charm, The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, The decent church that topped the neighbouring hill.

-Goldsmith, Oliver
  The Deserted Village, l.9^12.

I climbed a hill as light fell short, And rooks came home in scramble sort, And filled the trees and flapped and fought And sang themselves to sleep.

-Hodgson, Ralph
  'Song of Honour'.

I stood upon that silent hill And stared into the sky until My eyes were blind with stars and still I stared into the sky.

-Hodgson, Ralph
  'Song of Honour'.

And who will bring white peace That he may sleep upon his hill again?

-Lindsay, (Nicholas) Vachel
  The Congo and Other Poems,'Abraham Lincoln Walks  At Midnight'.

Where are Elmer, Herman, Bert,Tom and Charley, The weak of will, the strong of arm, the clown, the boozer, the fighter? All, all, are sleeping on the hill.

-Masters, Edgar Lee
  Spoon River Anthology,'The Hill'.

For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock; by fountain, shade, and rill.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.23^4.

  Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple Nature to his hope has giv'n, Behind the cloud-topped hill, an humbler heav'n.

-Pope, Alexander
  An Essay on Man, epistle1, l.99^104.