<h3><SPAN name="DISCOVERY" name="DISCOVERY"></SPAN>DISCOVERY.</h3>
<p>When the bugler morn shall wind his horn,
<br/>And we wake to the wild to be,
<br/>Shall we open our eyes on the selfsame skies
<br/>And stare at the selfsame sea?
<br/>O new, new day! though you bring no stay
<br/>To the strain of the sameness grim,
<br/>You are new, new, new—new through and through,
<br/>And strange as a lawless dream.
<br/>
<br/>Will the driftwood float by the lonely boat
<br/>And our prisoner hearts unbar,
<br/>As it tells of the strand of an unseen land
<br/>That lies not far, not far?
<br/>O new, new hope! O sweep and scope
<br/>Of the glad, unlying sea!
<br/>You are new, new, new—with the promise true
<br/>Of the dreamland isles to be.
<br/>
<br/>Will the land-birds fly across the sky,
<br/>Though the land is not to see?
<br/>Have they dipped and passed in the sea-line vast?
<br/>Have we left the land a-lee?
<br/>O new despair! I though the hopeless air
<br/>Grow foul with the calm and grieves,
<br/>You are new, new, new—and we cleave to you
<br/>As a soul to its freedom cleaves.
<br/>
<br/>Does the falling night hide fiends to fight
<br/>And phantoms to affray?
<br/>What demons lurk in the grisly mirk,
<br/>As the night-watch waits for day?
<br/>O strange new gloom! we await the doom,
<br/>And what doom none may deem;
<br/>But it's new, new, new—and we'll sail it through,
<br/>While the mocking sea-gulls scream.
<br/>
<br/>A light, a light, in the dead of night,
<br/>That lifts and sinks in the waves!
<br/>What folk are they who have kindled its ray,—
<br/>Men or the ghouls of graves?
<br/>O new, new fear! near, near and near,
<br/>And you bear us weal or woe!
<br/>But you're new, new, new—so a cheer for you!
<br/>And onward—friend or foe!
<br/>
<br/>Shall the lookout call from the foretop tall,
<br/>"Land, land!" with a maddened scream,
<br/>And the crew in glee from the taffrail see
<br/>Where the island palm-trees dream?
<br/>New heart, new eyes! For the morning skies
<br/>Are a-chant with their green and gold!
<br/>New, new, new, new—new through and through!
<br/>New, new till the dawn is old!</p>
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