Many a joy that we held as nought,

Hopes, but never the great fulfilment,

Love, but never the love we sought.

Now we must part from home and friend.

We have treasures of youth to spend:

Braver ventures, fairer maidens

Wait for us where the old ways end.{43}

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Now for the quest unknown, untried,

Now for the path with none to guide.

Dawns that glimmer on new horizons,

Starlit camps on the mountain side.

For our dreams remain, and the wonders flown

From the world that we knew and called our own,

Are ours to follow by shores uncharted,

Ours to seek in a land unknown;

Dreams that give to the thing life shows,

What the sky gives earth, when the evening glows

On the lonely hills, and the distant places

Blossom in gold and purple and rose.

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