The Glittering Plain
Nora Hopper Chesson
1871 to 1906
Far, far away the Glittering Plain
Lies over leagues of land and sea:
The bow stands fair against the rain,
And yet we cannot find the key
Whereby at last we might attain
Where Castle Heart's Delight may be.
Land of the living, far away
Your fields stand golden in the sun:
The King smiles and the Folk are gay
For youth renewed and sorrow done:
And reapers gather in the hay
Singing forth for joy of harvest won.
Hallblithe, alas! moves not along
The ways: nor Hostage o' the Rose:
But hark, Erato leads the song
And Love himself with laughter goes
Midmost the maidens there that throng
To pull the hawthorn whence it grows.
Yet call us, call us once again,
Land of the Living! sweet and strong
Thy spell lies on us, heart and brain,
Though in the night we grope, and long
Must seek, or ere our eyes are fain
Of flowers and fields no winters wrong.
Nora Hopper Chesson's The Glittering Plain
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