Homeward Bound

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Title:     Homeward Bound
Author: Henry Newbolt [More Titles by Newbolt]

After long labouring in the windy ways,
On smooth and shining tides
Swiftly the great ship glides,
Her storms forgot, her weary watches past;
Northward she glides, and through the enchanted haze
Faint on the verge her far hope dawns at last.

The phantom sky-line of a shadowy down,
Whose pale white cliffs below
Through sunny mist aglow
Like noon-day ghosts of summer moonshine gleam--
Soft as old sorrow, bright as old renown,
There lies the home of all our mortal dream.

[The end]
Henry Newbolt's poem: Homeward Bound

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