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THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE
"Somewhere," he mused, "its dear enchantments wait,
That land, so heavenly
sweet;
Yet all the paths we follow, soon or late,
End in the desert's
heat.
"And still it lures us to the eager quest,
And calls us day by day"
-
"But I," she said, her babe upon her breast
"But I have found the
way."
"Some time," he sighed, "when youth and joy are spent,
Our feet the gates
may win" -
"But I," she smiled, with eyes of deep content,
"But I have
entered in."
Emily Huntington Miller [1833-1913]
From: Stevenson, Burton Egbert.
The Home Book of Verse.
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This collection assembled by Jone Johnson Lewis.
Collection © 1999-2002 Jone Johnson Lewis.
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