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First Line: What sight so lured him through the fields he knew
Last Line: Far -- far -- away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Music & Musicians


WHAT sight so lured him thro' the fields he knew
As where earth's green stole into heaven's own hue,
Far -- far -- away?

What sound was dearest in his native dells?
The mellow lin-lan-lone of evening bells
Far -- far -- away.

What vague world-whisper, mystic pain or joy,
Thro' those three words would haunt him when a boy,
Far -- far -- away?

A whisper from his dawn of life? a breath
From some fair dawn beyond the doors of death
Far -- far -- away?

Far, far, how far? from o'er the gates of birth,
The faint horizons, all the bounds of earth,
Far -- far -- away?

What charm in words, a charm no words could give?
O dying words, can Music make you live
Far -- far -- away?







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