Into the Silent Land! <br />Ah! who shall lead us thither? <br />Clouds in the evening sky more darkly gather, <br />And shattered wrecks lie thicker on the strand. <br />Who leads us with a gentle hand <br />Thither, O thither, <br />Into the Silent Land? <br /> <br />Into the Silent Land! <br />To you, ye boundless regions <br />Of all perfection! Tender morning-visions <br />Of beauteous souls! The Future's pledge and band! <br />Who in Life's battle firm doth stand, <br />Shall bear Hope's tender blossoms <br />Into the Silent Land! <br /> <br />O Land! O Land! <br />For all the broken-hearted <br />The mildest herald by our faith allotted, <br />Beckons, and with inverted torch doth stand <br />To lead us with a gentle hand <br />Into the land of the great Departed, <br />Into the Silent Land!<br /><br />Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/song-of-the-silent-land-from-the-german-of-salis/
