THE POEM
What gay adventures,
What somber journeys,
What wings upbear you
As you accomplish
All your hid longings?
What somber journeys,
What wings upbear you
As you accomplish
All your hid longings?
Do you climb lonely
Sky-secret mountains?
Do you grope blindly,
Leaden, foot-hindered,
Through threatening caverns?
Sky-secret mountains?
Do you grope blindly,
Leaden, foot-hindered,
Through threatening caverns?
Do you face dangers,
Stormy gray sea-ways,
Night-haunted sorrows?
And am I with you,
I, the beloved?
Or do you fly me,
Me, a dream-enemy?
Stormy gray sea-ways,
Night-haunted sorrows?
And am I with you,
I, the beloved?
Or do you fly me,
Me, a dream-enemy?
May you tread safely,
In your far dreaming,
Gaining the goals!
In your far dreaming,
Gaining the goals!
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