What I find amusing is that one would take so much time explaining that which one believed needed no explanation. I will now sit back and await the explanation.
P. M.
"Rickard A. Parker" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>It's Eliot's "At Graduation 1905" but missing stazas 2, 3, 9-14 (the last).
>
>I didn't check it out word for word so don't go republish it but on a very
>quick scan it appears to be otherwise authentic.
>
>It just took a minute to find my copy of "Poems written in Early Youth" and
>a few minutes more to do the scan but I spent much more time going through
>the posts to see if anyone else verified it.
>
>Regards,
> Rick Parker
>
>
>On Mon, 18 Feb 2013 05:50:17 -0800, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Here's a poem said to be written by Eliot titled 'Departure and
>Arrival'.
>>I'm copying it out from the following link:
>>http://www.paklinks.com/gs/images-central/66393-for-all-my-friends-out-there.html
>>There are other links at Google that mention this poem but don't
>provide the text.
>>Could someone guide me to an authentic source where I could find this poem?
>>
>>Departure and Arrival
>>T.S.Eliot
>>
>>Standing upon the shores of all we know
>>We linger for a moment doubtfully,
>>Then with a song upon our lips, sail we
>>Across the harbor bar--no chart to show
>>No light to warn of rocks which lie below,
>>But let us put forth courageously.
>>
>>Although the path be tortuous and slow,
>>Although it bristles with a thousand fears,
>>To hopeful eye of youth it still appears
>>A lane by which the rose and hawthorn grow
>>We hope it may be, would that we might know
>>Would we might look into the future years.
>>
>>Great duties call--the twentieth century
>>More grandly dowered than those which came before,
>>Summons--who knows what time may hold in store,
>>Or what great deed the distant years may see,
>>What conquest over pain and misery,
>>What heroes greater than were ever of yore.
>>
>>But if this century is to be more great
>>Than those before, her sons must make her so
>>And we are of her sons, and we must go
>>With eager hearts to help mould well her fate,
>>And see that she shall gain such proud estate
>>And shall on future centuries bestow.
>>
>>A legacy of benefits--may we
>>In future years be found with those who try
>>To labour for the good until they die,
>>And ask no other question than to know
>>That they have helped the cause of victory,
>>That with their aid the flag is raised so high.
>>
>>Sometime in distant years when we are grown
>>Gray-haired and old, whatever be our lot,
>>We shall desire to see again the spot
>>Which, whatever we have been or done
>>Or to what distant lands we may have gone,
>>Through all the years will never have been forgot.
>>
>>-----
>>
>>CR
>>
>>
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