wanderlust {words by Robert Service}
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Photograph taken by the side of the historic Old Stage Road in Jackson County, Oregon, February 28, 2015 |
Have you ever heard of
the Land of Beyond,
That dream at the gates of the day?
Alluring it lies at the
skirts of the skies,
And ever so far away;
Alluring it calls: O ye
yoke of galls,
And ye of the trails overfond,
With saddle and pack, by
paddle and track,
Let’s go to the Land of Beyond!
Have ever you stood
where the silences brood,
And vast the horizons begin,
At the dawn of the day
to behold far away
The goal you would strive for and win?
Yet ah! in the night
when you gain to the height,
With the vast pool of heaven star-spawned,
Afar and agleam, like a
valley of dream,
Still mocks you the Land of Beyond.
Thank God! there is
always the Land of Beyond
For us who are true to the trail;
A vision to seek, a
beckoning peak,
A fairness that never will fail;
A proud in our soul that
mocks at a goal,
A manhood that irks at a bond,
And try how we will,
unattainable still,
Behold it, our Land of Beyond!
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