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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A PILGRIM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: Across the trodden continent of years
Last Line: Only thy devotee!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims
First Line: Across the trodden continent of years
Last Line: Only thy devotee!
Subject(s): Pilgrimages & Pilgrims
A CROSS the trodden continent of years
To shrines of long ago,
My heart, a hooded pilgrim, turns with tears—
For could I know
That in the temple of thy constancy
There still may burn a taper lit for me,
'Twould be a star in starless heaven, to show
That Heaven could be.
Bent with the weight of all that I desired
And all that I forswore,
My heart roams, mendicant, forlorn and tired,
From door to door,
Begging of every stern-faced memory
An alms of pity—just to come to thee,
No more thy knight, thy champion no more—
Only thy devotee!
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