Hardy’s When I Set out for Lyonnesse

  When I set out for Lyonnesse,
    A hundred miles away,
    The rime was on the spray,
  And starlight lit my lonesomeness
  When I set out for Lyonnesse
    A hundred miles away.

  What would bechance at Lyonnesse
    While I should sojourn there
    No prophet durst declare,
  Nor did the wisest wizard guess
  What would bechance at Lyonnesse
    While I should sojourn there.

  When I came back from Lyonnesse
    With magic in my eyes,
    All marked with mute surmise
  My radiance rare and fathomless,
  When I came back from Lyonnesse
    With magic in my eyes!

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