Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, STOUT MARCHES LEAD TO CERTAIN ENDS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON


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Last Line: A thousand seekers seek the light
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Seeking


Stout marches lead to certain ends,
We seek no Holy Grail, my friends''"
That dawn should find us every day
Some fraction farther on our way.

The dumb lands sleep from east to west,
They stretch and turn and take their rest.
The cock has crown in the steading-yard,
But priest and people slumber hard.

We two are early forth, and hear
The nations snoring far and near.
So peacefully their rest they take,
It seems we are the first awake!

''"Strong heart! this is no royal way,
A thousand cross-roads seek the day;
And, hid from us, to left and right,
A thousand seekers seek the light.





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