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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE TRAVELER, by ANDRE GERMAIN Poet's Biography
First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn
Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips
First Line: Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn
Last Line: You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cendre, Lois
Subject(s): Home; Travel; Journeys; Trips
Whither do you go into the evening, you so young and so worn?
No countryside awaits you as a brother,
No heart is the fountain that is your distant bourne.
But sad and blue as evening is the brotherly land where vainly
You seek a home that forever flees desperately before you.
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