Travel Song
Anne Glenny Wilson 1848 (Greenvale, Victoria) – 1930 (Lethenty)
‘COME, before the summer passes
Let us seek the mountain land:’
So they called me, happy playmates,
And we left the dawn-lit strand:
Riding on till later sunbeams slanted
On dark hills and downward-plunging streams,
And the solemn forest softly chanted
Old, old dreams.
From the pass, we saw in glory
Wave on purple wave unrolled
To the cloud-encircled summit
Floating high, alone and cold:
Like that altar-stone, by men of Athens
Dedicated to the unknown God;
Waiting for some fire to touch his holy
White abode.
Then the mellow sunset dying
Passed in rosy fire away,
And the stars and planets journeyed
On their ancient unknown way.
Riders of the illimitable heaven!
Moving on so far beyond our ken,
Do ye scorn the toiling, heavy-hearted
Sons of men?
Ere we slept we heard the torrents
Rushing from that mighty hill
Join in deep melodious singing,
While the forest-land was still.
Music of forgotten wildernesses!
Would that I could hear that song again!
Song of primal Earth’s enchanted sweetness,
Joy and pain.
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | ABXBCDXD EBXXXXEX FGXGXHCH XIFIAHXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 1,135 |
Words | 175 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 8, 8, 8 |
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