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William Ernest Henley - Over the Hills and Far AwayWilliam Ernest Henley - Over the Hills and Far Away
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      Where  forlorn sunsets flare and fade           On desolate sea and lonely sand,       Out of the silence and the shade           What is the voice of strange command       Calling you still, as friend calls friend           With love that cannot brook delay,       To rise and follow the ways that wend           Over the hills and far away?       Hark in the city, street on street           A roaring reach of death and life,       Of vortices that clash and fleet           And ruin in appointed strife,       Hark to it calling, calling clear,           Calling until you cannot stay       From dearer things than your own most dear           Over the hills and far away.       Out of the sound of the ebb-and-flow,           Out of the sight of lamp and star,       It calls you where the good winds blow,           And the unchanging meadows are;       From faded hopes and hopes agleam,           It calls you, calls you night and day       Beyond the dark into the dream           Over the hills and far away.
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