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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WANDERLUST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poet's Biography
First Line: The highways and the byways, the
Last Line: Never a look or a turning back till the dust shall claim the dust!
Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers
First Line: The highways and the byways, the
Last Line: Never a look or a turning back till the dust shall claim the dust!
Subject(s): Nature; Wandering & Wanderers
THE highways and the byways, the kind sky folding all,
And never a care to drag me back and never a voice to call;
Only the call of the long, white road to the far horizon's wall.
The glad seas and the mad seas, the seas on a night in June,
And never a hand to beckon back from the path of the new-lit moon;
Never a night that lasts too long or a dawn that breaks too soon!
The shrill breeze and the hill breeze, the sea breeze, fierce and bold,
And never a breeze that gives the lie to a tale that a breeze has told;
Always the tale of the strange and new in the countries strange and old.
The lone trail and the known trail, the trail you must take on trust,
And never a trail without a grave where a wanderer's bones are thrust—
Never a look or a turning back till the dust shall claim the dust!
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