Things I’ve Learned While Roaming the Earth

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I set off slow one sleepy morning

On a path I’d never been

And walked as far as I could travel

Just to bring new life within.

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I quickly passed the waysides many

Each, potential in its way,

I knew my feet could travel any

Not today friends, not today.

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At length, I came upon a beach town

Seated far off in the sun,

Laying nigh the golden sands

Where children laugh and play and run.

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The glimmer soft of shining sands

Came soundless in the great divide;

The ever pace of time’s sure hands

Grew fainter than the distant tide.

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And all at once an unknown sadness

Swept along the ocean breeze;

Speaking fond of distant towns

And all the world’s soft mysteries.

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But soon the whispers passed beyond

And left the shining world below

And said farewell for other spheres

The eyes of man will never know.

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I stayed as long as I could manage,

Knowing that ever beyond today,

My steps will lead through common worlds

And nevermore again this way.

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