Thoreau & Beyond





 

Poetry

Pilgrims

 

“Have you not seen,

In ancient times,

Pilgrims pass by

Toward other climes,

With shining faces,

Youthful and strong,

Mounting this hill

With speech and with song?”

 

“Ah, my good sir,

I know not those ways;

Little my knowledge,

Tho’ many my days.

When I have slumbered,

I have heard sounds

As of travelers passing

These my grounds.

 

“’T was a sweet music

Wafted them by,

I could not tell

If afar off or nigh.

Unless I dreamed it,

This was of yore:

I never told it

To mortal before,

Never remembered

But in my dreams

What to me waking

A miracle seems.”

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