06.05.2012, 11:50
To Laurence Oliphant
TRAVELLER AND MYSTIC
O HAPPY Voyager over all the seas
That cling about this fiery-hearted sphere
With cool embrace, who never knewest fear,
Even though the masts before the strenuous breeze
Did crack! O Traveller through climes that freeze
The headlong torrent to a mirror clear,
And climes where Summer loiters all the year
Amid the shade of undespoiled trees!
O thou, for whom the beauty nor the fame
Of Earth sufficed, whose eager spirit pined
To scale the Western battlements of flame
The kingdoms of unfading day to find
And the dread password of the skies to claim,
On thee at last the Eternal Light hath shined!
TRAVELLER AND MYSTIC
O HAPPY Voyager over all the seas
That cling about this fiery-hearted sphere
With cool embrace, who never knewest fear,
Even though the masts before the strenuous breeze
Did crack! O Traveller through climes that freeze
The headlong torrent to a mirror clear,
And climes where Summer loiters all the year
Amid the shade of undespoiled trees!
O thou, for whom the beauty nor the fame
Of Earth sufficed, whose eager spirit pined
To scale the Western battlements of flame
The kingdoms of unfading day to find
And the dread password of the skies to claim,
On thee at last the Eternal Light hath shined!