Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems

<h2><SPAN name="UNCALLED" id="UNCALLED"></SPAN>UNCALLED</h2> <div class="poem"><div class="stanza"> <span class="i0">As one, who, journeying westward with the sun,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Beholds at length from the up-towering hills,<br/></span> <span class="i1">Far off, a land unspeakable beauty fills,<br/></span> <span class="i0">Circean peaks and vales of Avalon:<br/></span> <span class="i0">And, sinking weary, watches, one by one,<br/></span> <span class="i1">The big seas beat between; and knows it skills<br/></span> <span class="i1">No more to try; that now, as Heaven wills,<br/></span> <span class="i0">This is the helpless end, that all is done:<br/></span> <span class="i0">So 'tis with him, whom long a vision led<br/></span> <span class="i1">In quest of Beauty, and who finds at last<br/></span> <span class="i1">She lies beyond his effort. All the waves<br/></span> <span class="i0">Of all the world between them: While the dead,<br/></span> <span class="i1">The myriad dead, who people all the Past<br/></span> <span class="i1">With failure, hail him from forgotten graves.<br/></span></div> </div> <hr style="width: 65%;" /> <p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_67" id="Page_67">[Pg 67]</SPAN></span></p> <div style="break-after:column;"></div><br />