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IN PALESTINE
Every journey is good if love be the goal of it.
What's all the world if love's not the soul of it;
What were the worth of it—
Thou not there!
"NOT HERE"
I
Not here, but somewhere, so men say,
More bright the day,
And the blue sky
More nigh;
Somewhere, afar, the bird of dawn sings sweeter;
Somewhere completer
The round of hopes and heart-beats that make life
More than a bootless strife.
II
But, ah! there be that know
Where joy alone doth grow.
Led by one true star,
The journey is not far.
'T is in a garden in no distant land,
High-walled on every hand;
And the key thereof
Is love.
"NO, NO, SHE SAID"
"No, no," she said;
"I may not wed;
If say I must—nay must I say;
I cannot stay;
Nay, nay, I needs must flout thee!"
