Youth and Love
by R.L. Stevenson
Once only by the garden gate
Our lips we joined and parted.
I must fulfil an empty fate
And travel the uncharted.
Hail and farewell! I must arise,
Leave here the fatted cattle,
And paint on foreign lands and skies
My Odyssey of battle.
The untented Kosmos my abode,
I pass, a wilful stranger:
My mistress still the open road
And the bright eyes of danger.
Come ill or well, the cross, the crown,
The rainbow or the thunder,
I fling my soul and body down
For God to plough them under.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Youth and Love by R.L. Stevenson
From R.L. Stevenson's Songs of Travel. For background see Lust, Vengeance, Exile & Loss.
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