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We seek a land beneath the early beams Of stars that rise beyond the sunset gate, Where all the year the twilight lingers late, Athwart whose coast the last-born sunray gleams. Fair are the fields and full of pleasant streams, Far sound the hedge-rows with the burgher bees, Soft are the winds and taste of southern seas, Night brings no longing there, and sleep no dreams. O tillerman, steer true, while we, who bow Above the oar-shafts, sing the land we seek, Land of the past, its rapture and its ruth; Future we ask none, we are memories now, We bear the years whose lips no longer speak, And round our galley’s prow the name is Youth.
We seek a land beneath the early beams Of stars that rise beyond the sunset gate, Where all the year the twilight lingers late, Athwart whose coast the last-born sunray gleams. Fair are the fields and full of pleasant streams, Far sound the hedge-rows with the burgher bees, Soft are the winds and taste of southern seas, Night brings no longing there, and sleep no dreams. O tillerman, steer true, while we, who bow Above the oar-shafts, sing the land we seek, Land of the past, its rapture and its ruth; Future we ask none, we are memories now, We bear the years whose lips no longer speak, And round our galley’s prow the name is Youth.
In print by 1921 AD · modern
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- Robert Cameron Rogers (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1921 AD · modern
In print by 1921: recorded in My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 307 · printed citation: Robert Cameron Rogers (b. 1862). · compiler notes excluded
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