I sought for my happiness over the world, <br />Oh, eager and far was my quest; <br />I sought it on mountain and desert and sea, <br />I asked it of east and of west. <br />I sought it in beautiful cities of men, <br />On shores that were sunny and blue, <br />And laughter and lyric and pleasure were mine <br />In palaces wondrous to view; <br />Oh, the world gave me much to my plea and my prayer <br />But never I found aught of happiness there! <br /> <br />Then I took my way back to a valley of old <br />And a little brown house by a rill, <br />Where the winds piped all day in the sentinel firs <br />That guarded the crest of the hill; <br />I went by the path that my childhood had known <br />Through the bracken and up by the glen, <br />And I paused at the gate of the garden to drink <br />The scent of sweet-briar again; <br />The homelight shone out through the dusk as of yore <br />And happiness waited for me at the door!<br /><br />Lucy Maud Montgomery<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-seeker/
