Noekoes - Chiva - Boechara - Samarkand
July 28th 2008
James Elroy Flecker
THE GOLDEN JOURNEY TO SAMARKAND
We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go
Always a little further: it may be
Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow,
Across that angry or that glimmering sea,
White on a throne or guarded in a cave
There lives a prophet who can understand
Why men were born: but surely we are brave,
Who take the Golden Road to Samarka
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