WHERE is the unknown country?" I whispered sad and slow, -- "The strange and awful country To which I soon must go, must go, To which I soon must go?" Out of the unknown country A voice sang soft and low: -- "O pleasant is that country And sweet it is to go, to go, And sweet it is to go. "Along the shining country The peaceful rivers flow: And in that wondrous country The tree of life does grow, does grow, The tree of life does grow." Ah, then into that country Of which I nothing know, The everlasting country, With willing heart I go, I go, With willing heart I go. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...LOVE'S APPARITION AND EVANISHMENT; AN ALLEGORICAL ROMANCE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE TWELVE-FORTY-FIVE (FOR EDWARD J. WHEELER) by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 1ST SERIES: 38 by EDWARD TAYLOR THE TWO MASKS by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH WHEN DEATH HAS LOST THE KEY by KENNETH SLADE ALLING THE THREE MUSICIANS by AUBREY BEARDSLEY |