Three Seas
A rippling silver path
Crossed the sable sea
Beyond that stream of light
Something called to me
Iridescent water
Aglimmer with dawn light
Darting fire from the East
An Isle lay out of sight
To reach that Magic Isle
The whole of me did yearn
And how to tread those beams
I longed and longed to learn
My father drove the car
East by a coast so rough
In valleys wound the road
Then back to wave hewn bluffs
The car plunging over
A cliff into the sea
Became a boat to cross
From land that's all khaki
Sea and sky were the same
Uniform monotone
Abandoning that world
We motored all alone
A dark mountain loomed
From the sea it rose
Fog all about its crown
From shore to cloud a road
Up the mount father drove
Until we reached the fog
No further father went
But I climbed on and on
Above the cloud I burst
It roiled in the West
To the East on my right
I saw a valley blest
A youth awaited me
I am your guide he said
We strode the sunlit way
The lovely valley ahead
The path enchanted wound
Beneath a cobalt sky
By humming fields of gold
The flowers took my eye
Trees in greens yellows reds
Animals graze content
Birds add to my delight
Is it here that I'm meant?
Amidst the colours bright
The path came by a beach
A flashing azure sea
Broke on the sandy reach
A village beautiful lies
Above the beautiful bay
In its lawns and gardens
Beautiful people play
Here you choose my guide said
They read me poetry
Showed their arts and crafts
Devoted to beauty
Stay with us they pleaded
Here we live in delight
Here you will be happy
Yet in their hearts was night
East South and West their eyes
Could look yet not the North
They knew they had failed
To choose the path of worth
The path reached on by
Their backwater village
I looked North and sought
What they'd not acknowledge
A lone struggle ahead
Across a mountain range
Enchantments left behind
A future stark and strange
Beyond its snowy peaks
More mountains I could see
Far greater than those near
Between - a deep valley
In that darkest valley
The soul must walk in night
No turning back nor guide
Except rare shafts of light
Drawn by inner vision
The traveller must climb
Over the third mountain
All darkness left behind
Beyond the further tops
There is another country
Where foothills slope away
To the Infinite Sea
This Sea sends forth the Call
The spirit must respond
The Call defines the Path
That draws one ever on
